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Computer - Windows

Error 0x8007232B occurs when trying to activate Windows 7

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Over the weekend, got the following error message when trying to activate Windows 7 Pro:

Windows could not be activated.
Key management services (KMS) host could not be located in domain name system (DNS), please have your system adminstrator verify that a KMS is published correctly in DNS.
Error: 0x8007232b
Description:
DNS name does not exist.
IfKMS activationwill not be used, and if there is noKMS server, the product keyshould be changed to an MAK. For Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), or forTechNet, the stock-keeping units (SKUs)that are listed below the media are usually volume licensed-media, and the product key thatis supplied is an MAK key.Change the product key to an MAK. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Click Start the Start button, click All Programs, click Accessories, and then right-click Command Prompt.
  2. Click Run as administrator.  User Access Control permission  If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation
  3. At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press Enter:
    slmgr -ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
  4.  Note This command, slmgr, is the Windows Software Licensing Management Tool.  The placeholder xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx represents your MAK product key.  After this, you will be able to activate Windows 7 normally.
Blog Information, Computer - Linux

Webserver passwords, as well as web ‘symlinks’ WERE broken due to ONE bad .htaccess file!

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Well, I unexpectedly caused the web server’s password protected directories ALL to go down the drain with just ONE mistake in ONE .htaccess file.  Not only that, but many symbolic links stopped working in apache, even though they still worked in a CLI.  I am such a dumbass, heh.  Here’s what I did:

This is an example of the .htaccess file I created:

# cat .htaccess

AuthUserFile /XXXXX/XXXXX/XXXXX/.xxxxx AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName “Sam’s Blog”
AuthType Basic

<Limit GET POST PUT>
  require user xxxxx yyyyy
</Limit>

The offending line is in Bold Blue, more specifically that one little old apostrophe.  😉

All fixed now, boys and girls. 😀

Computer - Linux, Server Information

‘NEW’ page now working on CRAB

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Got the NEW page working on the CRAB server……  It was more than likely a side effect of the Apache server upgrade somewhere around the Fedora 18 or 19 upgrade.  Here’s how I did it:

I became root user, then opened a terminal in the requests directory.

# nano .htaccess

Then, I put the following into the file:

Options +Includes
AddType text/html .html .shtml .txt
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .html .shtml .txt

Saved the file, then restarted Apache as follows:

# systemctl restart httpd

That took care of it, but I think I shall try putting that .htaccess file in CRAB’s document root, as well as the main server document root.  I think that might be a better place for that file.  😀

Computer - Linux, Server Information

Yet another issue with Fedora 20. (This is getting old)

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Well, tonight, while trying to track down a firewall (I think) problem, I noticed that my messages log file, as well as all the other logs in /var/log/ were not being written, and were at 0 bytes.  Not very useful to tail.  So, I discovered that Fedora was moving away from rsyslog.  I was not happy.  So, I became root and:

# service rsyslog start

That took care of starting the logging back up, and to make sure that it starts after a reboot, I used nano to edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and this is what I added towards the top of the file:

## Enable logging (Due to Fedora 20 suckiness)

service rsyslog start

THAT most definitely expresses my sentiment.  😉  I’m sure that uncovering these little issues is far from over, and all I can imagine is that Fedora is trying to ‘dumb down’ the OS to make it more like Windows, or Mac OS, in order to get a wider user base.  Might be what the average ‘Point and Click’ user wants, but NOT what I want.  Good thing that I’ve been at this game long enough to figure out how they are trying to tie my hands.  Well, now that I have the source port numbers, I can get back on the road to figuring out my problem, tomorrow.  😉