January 2015 - Sysadmins of the North

How to restore a deleted Open-Xchange context?

How-to restore, or recover, an accidentally deleted OX context. If you've accidentally deleted an Open-Xchange context (contextid), then that is bad... Here is how to recover a deleted OX context and filestore... Assuming you make Open-Xchange backups of course.

By Jan Reilink 21/01/2015GNU Linux

Windows Server

How to play old games on Windows with DOSBox

PC retrogaming how-to for 64-bit Windows - and Linux! We all love old games. It's a nostalgia thing from when we played those really old games on our 286 (or older, like an MSX) computer, either using floppy disks or cassettes/cartridges. There is nothing much sysadmin about this, it’s all about FUN! You all remember Airborne Ranger, Operation Wolf, Blues Brothers, Gunboat and The Lost Vikings, right?

By Jan Reilink 04/01/2015Windows Server

PowerShell

PowerShell: find all files owned by a particular user

How to use PowerShell to find all files and folders owned by a specific user in Windows. Find files and folders fast with PowerShell.

By Jan Reilink 04/01/2015PowerShell

WordPress

Disable WordPress comments (how-to)

When the WordPress comment option is abused by spammers, it becomes a real pain in the "@ss". With thousands spam reactions, disabling -and removing- WordPress comments is the only way to go. Here is how to disable WordPress comments in both the WordPress Dashboard interface and in your MySQL database. As a bonus, I show you how to re-enable comments too!

By Jan Reilink 02/01/2015WordPress

Month: January 2015