Archive for the ‘Linux / UNIX / Open Source’ Category

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

/etc deserves its own filesystem!

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 […]

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Installing SQL-Ledger on FreeBSD (using ports)

If you’ve followed us for a while, you might remember our article ‘Selecting an Accounting System’. Not too many things have changed since then. The developers over at Quickbooks are still not competent enough to write an OS independent web-app, and no other major events have occurred. The most interesting thing that have happened since […]

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

A (More) Comprehensive Mediawiki Guide

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.

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

Optimal Linux Setup in a Small Office Environment

A while back I became responsible for the IT infrastructure for another company. Fortunately, these type of companies tend to be easy to manage with the right software and hardware. However, this time I thought about trying something new. For many, many years I’ve been running Linux on the server for a variety of companies, […]

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Unleash the Power of Samba Under OS X

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 […]