aaron

IMAP Authentication for WordPress

UPDATE 2/13/09: There is a newer version of the IMAP Authentication plugin for WordPress 2.7.1. It seems like IMAP authentication would be a pretty basic plugin to find for WordPress. A google search doesn’t turn up much. I found this one which was apparently written for an older version of WordPress. Never having written a WordPress plugin before, naturally I decided to fix it to work with version...

aaron

DIY Power over Ethernet Cable

I am setting up a security camera mounted under the eve of my roof. Rather than running an ethernet cable and an extension cord up there, I figured I could use the four unused wires in an ethernet cable to provide the camera with power. The camera only uses 9v, so it should be pretty safe. I had a couple extra 1ft patch cables lying around, so I spliced the transformer into two patch cables. This will...

aaron

Another raid5 scare, and how to recover an apparently trashed array

This morning after waking up to lots of thunder and lightning, I got a text message saying my raid5 array had failed. Only this time, 2 of the 3 drives were missing. Since both of those drives were actually mounted via a vblade share (on a different physical machine), I assumed that the other server had freaked out during a power surge. I quickly rebooted the machine to bring back the vblade shares, but...