I decide it was time to go with a simple HTPC(Home Theater Personal Computer) that ran Linux. So I decided the only thing that would work really nice with a good remote control was the Lenovo Ideacentre Q180 with XBMC setup. So far after setting up everything I can say… Continue reading
On June 6 2012 we celebrate IPv6 or IPv6 Day. For those of you unfamiliar IPv6 can handle 2^128 addresses compared to IPv4 which is 2^32, Google has setup a nice Overview of it located here. I guess I should be thinking about updating my Motorola Surfboard to at least… Continue reading
The last job I was with really did some weird things, they loved to store all of there clients username’s and password’s in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. I will let you take a moment to catch yourself because I was stunned by how stupid this idea was and why they… Continue reading
I recently had to help a client who got infected with Malware on their PC, of course it was connected to a domain and that means they are other variables to take into effect. I removed the infection off the computer and used the unhide tool to unhide hidden files… Continue reading
One little trick I like to use in Linux and Mac OS X is when I want to know the external IP address of the machine I am working on is to use curl along with a website called ifconfig.me. We can begin with something very easy to get the… Continue reading
I finally got a new job in the IT world, I will be doing Desktop Support within a company so expect my new post will be containing more Windows based articles! I am also trying to finishing up my dnsmasq and tftp article because I have feeling I am going… Continue reading
It seems that our mail server was down so I stopped whatever I was doing to try and fix the issue, I had no idea what I was getting into, I had no experience with email servers so I decided to try and see what I could find online and… Continue reading
Today I was looking at an Acer Aspire D250 netbook for a client, they told me the screen would flicker and randomly shut off on them and on top of it, it would sometimes not turn on. This left me thinking it could be a huge problem such as a… Continue reading
I don’t really go off on rants but right now I am on a Debian Linux kick. It started off with trying to understand how PXE(Pre Execution Environment) works under Linux which once you get yourself familiar with Debian or even Ubuntu you can navigate your way around to installing… Continue reading
One thing that I am afraid to admit to now a days is upgrading my Linux Distrobution, not because of fear of new packages or how the system might break if I don’t update configuration files correctly, it’s because of the fact that I might lose Amarok 1.4. Amarok 1.4… Continue reading