How many times have you made a change to a server to only a couple of days or weeks later discover the change you did broke something? It happened to me a bunch of times. Sure, call me irresponsible, but sometimes I’m in a rush and don’t have time to document the change and write […]

I’ve been using Windows Vista on occasion recently. When I used it for the first time, I was expecting to see the now infamous ‘Cancel or allow?’ dialog boxes popping up left and right. To my surprise there was nothing of the sort. It took me a moment and to realize that the default account […]

MediaWiki is a little bit of a trick to set up and I haven’t been able to find any comprehensive guides. This article will be an attempt to provide one such guide.

Until a couple of days ago, my bookshelf was filled with binders with old lecture notes from school. The truth is that I don’t think I ever opened one of these binders after I finished the final for the class. Yet, I didn’t want to throw it all away, since it might come handy some […]

What is Samba?
For all you new users out there, I just want to let you know that Samba is great piece of Open Source software. It solves many issues for both sysadmins and ordinary users. What it does is to give UNIX users the ability to share files and printers with Windows users. Since […]