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About Me

Posted July 14th, 2005 by crmanski

Hello! Welcome to my website. As Computer Network Manager of Berlin High School it is basically my responsibility to try to assist the staff, students with the use of technology in their everyday lives. This site is a documentation of my ongoing work experiences and a way for me to help others outside the BHS community as well. This site is always in the state of "Heavy Construction" and will continue to be this way until I find more time in my busy schedule to do something about it...

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Bind9 Error on Debian Etch

Posted May 22nd, 2008 by crmanski

For those of you running a bind dns server you may have come across this error only when trying to restart your DNS server

 Reloading domain name service... : bindrndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused
 

This has to do with the configuration of (or lack there of) in /etc/bind/rndc.conf

Gubble - An Interesting Parental Control Firefox Extension

Posted March 14th, 2008 by crmanski

I just came across this very neat little Firefox extension that provides parental controls for the Firefox web browser. It is called Gubble (www.gubble.com). Once it is installed and you restart Firefox it will prompt you to setup a parental account and then child accounts. The extension takes control of the browser and works on a whitelist philosophy. Everything is blocked except what you allow for the child accounts.

Symantec Backup Exec Remote Agent 11d on Ubuntu Feisty

Posted August 2nd, 2007 by crmanski

I found a very helpful article on installing the Remote Agent for Linux on Ubuntu here: http://www.ubuntux.org/ubuntu-veritas-backup-exec-and-you

Below are the steps I used on Feisty Server. Note: Change to root first: sudo su (as the admin account)

1. I registered my serial numbers and downloaded the latest .tar.gz for all agents. (called BEWS_11D.7170_LINUX-UNIX-MAC-NT4_AGENTS.2.tar.gz at this time.)

2. Changed the port that webmin was running on (if you have it installed)

Testing the Linksys WAP200

Posted May 22nd, 2007 by crmanski

Today I tried out a couple of the newer Linksys WAP200 wireless access points. These are a little more pricey than the older WAP54G that I've used. They include a lot more features such as: VLANs, Multiple SSIDs, expanded logging features, etc. The configuration is pretty much straight forward. The IP configure options have two more boxes for DNS servers configuration. These were not present in the older models. So thinking nothing too much it I filled those in, setup the security and some of the other options, made a backup and put them into the field.

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