Recent Articles
Securing your Wireless LAN
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Some tips and things you might not know about your wireless network.
Handling a Subversion Repository URL Change
Sunday, May 3, 2009
If your repository URL changes, you can use the following command to fix existing snapshots.
vfat Mounts Default to Lowercase Shortnames
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
I want a "this is brain-damage" quote from Linus for this mess.
VirtualBox or VMWare Virtual Machine at Login
Sunday, April 12, 2009
How to start a virtual machine in X when a user logs in.
Dialog Progress Bar Through Pipe
Sunday, April 12, 2009
How to use dialog to display a script progress bar and communicate progress to it through a named pipe.
Ottawa Linux Symposium 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Here are some pictures from the 2008 Linux Symposium.
There is no such thing as a boring project. There are only boring executions.
- Irene Etzkorn
Sys Admin
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Probably more important than anything when dealing with windows machines is keeping an eye out for security updates.
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Filesystem Corruption Booting Windows 2000 0x24 Blue Screen
by digitalpeer, updated Saturday, September 4, 2004
This describes some steps you can use to troubleshoot and possibly fix filesystem corruption on a hard drive that you can not move to another computer.Windows 2000 Disk Larger than 128GB
by digitalpeer, updated Saturday, September 4, 2004
You'll need create a registry key to get Windows 2000 to recognize a hard drive larger than 128GB.Adaptec AR0-1130C Raid Controller Setup and Configuration
by digitalpeer, updated Saturday, September 4, 2004
Describes the steps necessary to setup the controller and raid configuration after a failure or new install. It will also aid in configuring and setting up the controller after that.Convert Windows 2000 BDC to PDC After PDC Failure
by digitalpeer, updated Saturday, September 4, 2004
This explains how to recover your domain and set it back up after a primary domain controller (PDC) failure.msconfig Utility
by digitalpeer, updated Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Utility to edit things like startup options for windows.Network Speed Tester (win32)
by digitalpeer, updated Sunday, June 13, 2004
Pretty nice little utility that doesn't use HD for a 100MB transfer.