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Archive for September, 2009

MySQL Stopped Starting Upon Reboot – Ubuntu

Posted by Tom On September - 22 - 2009

Okay, so here is a quick tip. After making some system changes on an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS box with MySQL 5, a problem occurred. Upon starting the system up, MySQL failed to automatically start as it had been doing.

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Windows 7 and the Dreaded Temp Profile

Posted by Tom On September - 22 - 2009

windows7Phew. For someone who’s corporate OS deployment experience has purposefully not included Vista, Windows 7 poses some challenges and a need to re-learn some things. Recently, one of our users brought us their machine that they recently had the hard drive replaced by a helpful soul. Unfortunately, the helpful soul returned the machine with Windows 7 RC rather than Windows XP Professional and our user has been using it for several weeks already. (Yes, I know this is not really the type of work I do, but hey, when folks are out of the office in a small organization, everyone pitches in.)

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FTP SSL/TLS Negotiation Failed

Posted by Tom On September - 10 - 2009

I find myself in a bit of a pickle. Recently, we’ve started having users have problems connecting to our Gene6 FTP server via FTP explicit SSL/TLS using FileZilla clients. Now for almost 2 years, this has been working fine. I’ve spent most of the day looking at the FileZilla and Gene6 forums without a concrete solution.

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