Steve Jenkins

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Like many owners of the ubiquitous Linksys WRT54G wireless router, I like to run aftermarket firmware on my device to unlock more of this router’s potential. I use one as my primary wireless router in my house, but I also use some as wireless Ethernet client bridges and wireless repeaters. […]

Bricked WRT54G with Blinking Power Light. Hard reset? TFTP? Nope ...

This entry was posted in Linux Reference Technology and tagged blinking power light bricked bricked router DD-WRT Linksys router Tomato WRT54G on by (updated 4655 days ago)
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As I do a fair amount of air travel, I sometimes convince family members to drop me at the airport, sometimes I use a car service, and sometimes I drive my own car and park it at the airport. For me, the latter is the most convenient, but depending upon […]

WallyPark Premier Garage Review

This entry was posted in Cars Product Reviews and tagged airport parking coupon discount garage parking Premier Garage SEA SEA-TAC Seattle airport parking WallyPark WallyPark Premier on by (updated 4679 days ago)
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A while back, I noticed a recurring error in my maillog that read: postfix/smtp: certificate verification failed for gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.53.27]:25: untrusted issuer /C=US/O=Equifax/OU=Equifax Secure Certificate Authority If you’re seeing this too, there’s an easy fix.

Fixing Postfix “certificate verification failed for gmail untrusted issuer” Error ...

This entry was posted in Linux Reference Technology and tagged certificate certificate verification failed Equifax gmail untrusted issuer OpenSSL Postfix SSL Certificate Thawte on by (updated 3600 days ago)
Jiffy Lube Check-in Special 4
(The following is an email I just sent to the contact address on http://jiffylubeutah.com/) SUBJECT: Feedback for Jiffy Lube #2892 To Whom it May Concern: The purpose of this email is to inform you of my experience at one of your Utah Jiffy Lube locations on May 16, 2011. After picking my […]

I had a Jiffy Lube Coupon, but instead got “Stiffied.”

This entry was posted in Product Reviews Rants and Raves and tagged coupon FourSquare Jiffy Lube Jiffy Lube coupon social media on by (updated 4655 days ago)
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If you have an email address, then it’s almost certain that you’ve had to type it into at least one online form. And if you’re like most, you’re required to do it on a regular basis. One way to help track whether that email address gets shared (and to be […]

How to use Address Tagging ([email protected]) with Postfix

This entry was posted in Linux Reference Technology and tagged address tag address tagging Postfix recipient delimiter recipient_delimiter SPAM user+tag [email protected] user-tag on by (updated 4790 days ago)
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Like most, I was horrified by the images of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated large areas in Japan. As expected, the news coverage had all the anticipated shots: flooding, property damage, distressed adults, crying children, widespread carnage in general. Much of the footage was similar to that seen in the […]

Why no Japanese looters? Because they stand to one side ...

This entry was posted in Personal Philosophy and tagged earthquake Japan looters looting New Orleans tsunami on by (updated 3790 days ago)
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This is another one of those articles I write mainly so I can reference it later to help me remember how I got something working, but if it helps someone else trying to get Amavis, ClamAV, and SpamAssassin working with Postfix on Fedora, then great!

Tips for installing Amavis-new, ClamAV, and SpamAssassin using Postfix on ...

This entry was posted in Linux Reference Technology and tagged Amavis-new ClamAV Fedora Fedora 12 Fedora Core 12 Postfix SPAM SpamAssassin on by (updated 4714 days ago)
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You don’t need a Windows Media Center PC to share pictures, videos, or music with an Xbox 360. If you’ve got a Fedora / RHEL/ CentOS box on your home network and you’d like to use it as a UPnP and DLNA Media Server so that you can stream files […]

How to set up uShare media server on Fedora / ...

This entry was posted in Linux Reference and tagged audio CentOS DLNA Fedora GeeXboX libupnp Linux media server media sharing pictures PlayStation 3 PS3 RHEL streaming UPnP uShare video Xbox Xbox 360 on by (updated 3600 days ago)
I’ve had a sick Xbox 360, flashing the dreaded Red Ring of Death (RRoD), sitting in my Utah office for almost a year now. I’d replaced it with an Xbox 360 Elite, and since I’m only in this office for a few days each month, I didn’t feel a rush […]

Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death Repaired

This entry was posted in Product Reviews Rants and Raves Technology and tagged 360 Dead Xbox E74 Flashing Lights Red Lights Red Ring of Death Repair Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox 360 Repair on by (updated 4532 days ago)
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Before proceeding with this tutorial, and at the risk of possibly overstating what is obvious to some, I want to make three things clear:

How to get DKIM and DomainKeys working with Postfix on ...

This entry was posted in Linux Reference Technology and tagged CentOS CentOS 5 CentOS 5.5 CentOS 5.x dk-milter DKIM DomainKeys DomainKeys Identified Mail OpenDKIM opendkim-milter Postfix RHEL RHEL 5 RHEL 5.5 Sender Policy Framework sendmail signed SPF on by (updated 3600 days ago)
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This blog post builds on the same workaround explained in my older post about how to install the 32-bit version of Dell OMSA 6.3 on a 64-bit version of RHEL / CentOS 5.5 on a PowerEdge server so you can manage a PERC 4 RAID adapter. Dell’s newer OMSA 6.4 […]

“No controllers found” fix: set up Dell OMSA 6.4 32-bit ...

This entry was posted in Linux Reference Technology and tagged 32-bit 64-bit CentOS CentOS 5.5 CentOS 5.x Dell No controller found No controllers found OMSA OMSA 6.4 OpenManage PERC 4 PowerEdge RHEL RHEL 5.5 srvadmin Storage Manager yum on by (updated 3600 days ago)
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UPDATE 7/11/15: The following procedure will work on RHEL/CentOS 7, 6, and 5 systems to upgrading from those systems’ default versions to Postfix 3.02. CentOS (a non-commercial clone of RedHat’s RHEL) is my server operating system of choice because it’s extremely stable and widely-used. One of the reasons it’s so stable is […]

Building Postfix on RHEL / CentOS from Source

This entry was posted in Linux Reference Technology and tagged binaries build CentOS CentOS 5 CentOS 5.5 CentOS 5.x CentOS 6 compile Postfix Postfix 2.3.3 Postfix 2.6.6 Postfix 2.8 Postfix 2.9 Redhat RHEL rpm source on by (updated 3207 days ago)
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A few months ago, I wrote a product review for the ecobee Smart Thermostat (along with complete installation instructions and photos) which had I purchased to remotely monitor and control the thermostat in my Utah house while I was away. Overall, my review of the ecobee was

Installing my 2nd ecobee and Using Group Admin Features

This entry was posted in Home Theater & Automation iPhone Linux Product Reviews Technology and tagged ecobee furnace heat pump iPhone remote thermostat smart thermostat thermostat WiFi WiFi thermostat on by (updated 4575 days ago)
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One of my favorite movie lines is from the 2001 movie Bandits, starring Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton. Billy Bob plays a neurotic genius who, at one point in the movie, states “You know the hardest thing about being smart? I always pretty much know what’s going to happen next. […]

ecobee Mothership Won’t Let My Thermostat Phone Home

This entry was posted in Home Theater & Automation Product Reviews Rants and Raves Technology and tagged ecobee hosted application remote thermostat smart thermostat thermostat WiFi on by (updated 4575 days ago)
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Installing the VNC server in Fedora 14 is a little bit different than I described it for Fedora 12, so here are some updated instructions for setting up VNC in Fedora 14 and connecting to it via Windows over the Internet.

How to Set Up VNC from Windows to Fedora 14 ...

This entry was posted in Linux Reference Technology and tagged Fedora Fedora 14 GNOME KDE PuTTY SecureCRT SSH tunneling TigerVNC VNC VNC Server vncserver vncservers Windows Windows to Fedora VNC on by (updated 3600 days ago)