September 2010

GFI MailArchiver error: Error: 500 Failed to connect with the search service

Submitted by pwnell on Wed, 09/08/2010 - 10:06

If you ever receive the error:

Error: 500 Failed to connect with the search service

when trying to connect to GFI MailArchiver, and in the event log an error about cannot find an IPC file, the reason is most probably a port conflict on port 8019.  In my case Intuit QuickBooks had a service running called QBCFMonitorService.exe and that was listening on the same port.  Stopping the QB service and marking it as disabled, then restarting the GFI MailArchiver Search Service fixed it for me.

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Migrating Linux to Parallels VM

Submitted by pwnell on Fri, 09/17/2010 - 15:39

So you want to get your Linux physical machine running inside a virtual machine under Parallels Desktop for Mac?  The straight forward way would be to use Parallels Transporter Agent on the Linux machine, however for me under Ubuntu 10.04.1 x64 it caused the machine to forever hang at the "Gathering information" screen...  And if you kill the agent then Ubuntu hangs and refuses to restart.  I clearly needed a different tactic.

What I did to get my Ubuntu Linux 10.04.1 x64 running happily inside my new Parallels Desktop for Mac 6.0, was the following:

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Copying a 1TB HDD from Linux to an SMB share on a Mac

Submitted by pwnell on Tue, 09/21/2010 - 10:32

 

root@waldopc:/# time dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/backup/192.168.0.20.hdd bs=65536
15261915+1 records in
15261915+1 records out

1000204886016 bytes (1.0 TB) copied, 49638.9 s, 20.1 MB/s

That is... Almost 14 hours.  Eish.

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