WHAT A PAIN!

PHPBB installed correctly and i had the site up and running in no time, then one of the users complained they had requested a password reset, but never received one?

The core system was CentOS with the ‘full’ install of Virtualmin, before I have only used the webmin module for Virtualmin, so i started to debug the log files.

I tried sending an email in PHPBB using the ‘mass email’ function but the error was:

E-mail error
» EMAIL/PHP/mail()
/adm/index.php

There was no real obvious signs in the logs apart from:

postfix/sendmail[19438]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied

In the ‘maillog’ log file.

I checked the PHP.INI config file and it was correct, for using Postfix

sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t –i

So it was head scratching time! I then remembered that in the past I have always had issues with SELinux and generally with internal servers i disable it. So i checked the settings and it was enabled, so i disabled it and rebooted.

/etc/selinux/config

Change SELINUX=enabled to SELINUX=disabled

Gave it a test by sending a test ‘mass email’ to a user and it worked, I then got the user to request a new password and that also worked!

Unfortunately this was not the case. The trial version installed very easily, but the install of Windows 7 took ages! Once install the virtual system seemed slow on the pre-selected settings, it was like running it on an old 386! even the network seemed like dial up! I installed MS Office 2010 and configured Outlook and yep that was slow as well.

The next plan was to try Windows XP instead, the default virtual settings was yet again slow and so I adjusted the memory setting and increased it from 512MB to 1GB, still no joy! Office 2010 was slow in fact all the applications ran slow, even the OS!

I am disappointed with this VMware Fusion 4, maybe I need to try Version 3?

Update: Since writing this, I have removed version 4 and installed version 3. Version 3 is definatly faster for me.

I created my first virtual device and clicked start… Error…

Hint: use ‘@foo’ to launch a virtual device named ‘foo’.

and the virtual device failed to start.

After googleing around for the error, there was many reasons, from editing config files to putting the path into system variables settings…

Well the easy solution:

When you install the Android SDK don’t install to:

C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk or C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk

Instead install to:

C:\Android\android-sdk

and it will run perfectly.

It looks like the Android SDK does not support long filenames.

The HTC Desire is an Android based phone, I was frustrated to find that the alarm would work intermittently. When I went into the clock, set the alarm, the alarm worked great. The next morning the alarm failed to go off… ARGHHHH… Finally after some messing around I figured it out, it was the task killer I was using, would you believe it that when the task killer killed all unclosed and unused applications to free up the memory, it killed the clock as well, well this stopped the alarm from working, even though the clock still worked and the alarm icon was still displayed?? So I added the clock as an exception in the task killer settings and now when I run the task killer the alarm still works.

So if you have one of these phones or maybe another android phone, killing the clock kills the alarm! but the clock still works…!!

Finding information for this car is difficult to say the least, I have however, an electronic version of the Renault Mégane Scenic RX4 Workshop Service Repair Manual available for a small charge.

Please note there is two versions available:

The JA0C with the F4R Petrol engine, Renault code 3323A. (185 pages)

and

The JA1F with the F9Q Diesel engine, Renault code 3415A. (111 pages)

Please also note that these manuals are for the specific differences in the RX4 compared to the standard scenic model, and may not contain some information found on the standard model.

Update:

Now available the RX4 manual pack:

• The JA0C model fitted with the F4R engine, Renault code for this manual is 3323A. (petrol version, 185 pages)
• The JA1F model fitted with the F9Q engine, Renault code for this manual is 3415A. (diesel version, 111 pages)
• The Renault Scenic – Workshop Repair Manual, Renault code for this manual is 2613A. (175 pages)
• The Renault Scenic RX4 – FAULT FINDING ABS – Traction Control, Renault code for this manual is 3416A (56 pages)

This pack is now available for purchase on Ebay.

I think the camera is slower on the N86, mainly due to the size of the image, but the overall quality is better.

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