Well, in my last article where I discuss why I am trying out 2 new AP’s by Unifi, it was discovered that they are … I think perfect. I am going to let them soak for a while and see how iOS devices hand off when walking across the building. But for now, they are great to configure.

I had to do a little fiddling with the pfSense box and learn new stuff again, but it all seems to work. I think I love pfSense [UPDATE Fall 2015 – no I REALLY LOVE pfSense].

In short – how to get the Unifi boxes to work with the main and guest networks by using a VLAN and how to route that traffic. This is for a church where on Sundays – hundreds of people come – so we need lots of guest IP addresses. Here we go… Continue reading →

So I have been on the hunt for a wifi system that would auto-transfer devices from one Access Point (AP) to another. Due to an issue that Apple has not fixed (and seemingly will not fix) is auto-transferring clients from one to another.

Is Unifi AP long-distance the answer? I will find out and post the results here once I have tried it out.

UPDATE: YES – BUY THESE. THEY ARE AWESOME (and why not a 3 pack!). They have guest Wifi (with ability to join a VLAN) and normal modes. They are easy to configure – real easy. See my next article to know how to use them with a pfSense router with a VLAN for a guest network.

[UPDATE Fall 2015: Important anti-frustration tips at bottom of my other article … I have installed 3 customers with these units and STILL love it … just follow those updates’ advise.]   Continue reading →

This guy rocks. Also – you have to add a route on the bottom of the “other” part of the setup if you wish to see all the computers on the other side of the vpn.

• openVPN with username/password type VPN
• L2TP and iPSec for iPhones on pfsense (not quite the latest pfSense though)

https://oitibs.com/pfsense-guest-wifi-alt-setup/

[UPDATE: Version 2.1.5. vs 2.2.2 sent me for another tailspin – be warned. This is why swear words were invented I think – but I was victorious. Read below for the differences.]

This was a bit of a nightmare but I finally figured it out. This version of this article is after I have ordered 2 of these. I know the benefits were huge of getting this as I have a very trusted friend install these at many places that I also do work for (he is the IT desktop guru, I am the IT bus. automation/database application guy. I have installed vpn software on them etc. I have a client who I said – “no problem – I will get you the best most configurable router possible” … but to my chagrin – lots of re-learning from ages past. Serial communication instead of a VGA … oh my. Lots of plugging in the usb, unplugging the soekris board and plugging things back in in the right order. If this helps you – please leave a comment.

Let me help you not to have to rip all your hair out. Many little hints from online, my friend who lives quite far from me who wasn’t available at the same times I was etc. and trial and error. Here we go …. Continue reading →

I wrote this article, as I again had to figure this out from scratch and it is my 10th time doing so. I did pretty good this time – it usually takes longer. Anyways, if it helps anyone out there or me in the future – it was worth it.

In AutoPLANT / AutoCAD,

• Place a component.
• Press the up arrow to see what command that was (A) AT_INSTRIND
• Click on Tools->Customize User Interface. Look under partial Customization files and note locations. I think we need the at_elect.cuix file (this is a binary file). It, in our case is here c:\programdata\bentley\plant v8i\elect\. Here you will see a .mnl file with the same name. Open it and search to see what (A) really does. Record this as Continue reading →

It is security by obscurity. At least the user cannot share a link to the image. I have not done this yet, but these 2 articles should link together nicely and provide a solutions. I will update once it is complete.

http://www.dotnetcurry.com/showarticle.aspx?ID=129&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

http://www.dotnetperls.com/file (the ReadAllBytes section)

Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted error occurred and the line that is the killer is mysql_fetch_assoc and the files are very very large (many thousands of rows).

I am moving servers and the new one is a standard server while the older one on another host (who lost a backup on me) used as much resources as I needed as long as certain metrics were not breeched. Well, there is a lot less memory available, so I have to think outside the box. I’m getting the ‘out of memory’ error in php. I know it can be fixed with the likes of ini_set(“memory_limit”,”64M”), but lets see if we can be more efficient – I am thinking that the above code – wasn’t. Continue reading →

So, I was debugging things for over an hour and … like often in Microsoft things, nothing was wrong or amiss. I changed the web.config file to point to another appConfig file. It didn’t care! It just used the old web.config file from over an hour ago. Ideally ASP.NET picks up on the change, but every so oftern (I have noticed over 2+ years, one gets caught in believing that things are working OK. Yes the config settings ARE CACHED.

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