A friend of mine has moved his domains over to Google mail, which can now do full domain support for email amongst their other appliances. Standard edition is free, but the premier edition is fairly pricy ($50USD per year per email account). So I signed up for the standard edition …

Well, yesterday was pretty nice considering it's nearing the end of January.. had a high of about -2C. Today.. drastic difference. Woke up and the thermometer read -15C and it was blizzard-like conditions... not heavy snow, but a pretty brisk wind. Currently it's -24C, but with the windchill, it feels …

Well, it's a little bit early for easter, but I'm cleaning my desktop and came across the following graphic, which is perhaps one of the amusing things that has made it's way to my email recently that sets me to grinning every time I look at it. Enjoy!

This week's TechRepublic tip is on Auto-reboot Linux after a kernel panic. It's a pretty simplistic post regarding automatically rebooting the Linux kernel if it encounters a panic. The posts on it are good too, indicating on how to tell the kernel to treat an oops like a panic, thus …

Anyone have any experience with this? I may end up (and will be proposing) that the school my wife works for looks into replacing their (falling apart, IMHO) Win2k server using Active Directory for the domain controller and whatnot to a solution using Samba and OpenLDAP (and I'm presuming kerberos …

Wow. This was completely unexpected, but I just read this morning that Crispin Cowan has joined Microsoft to work on security stuff over there. This, as far as I'm concerned, is big news for Microsoft. Sounds like they may finally have someone who has a clue working over there. Of …

This week's TechMail is Learn to use a serial console on Linux which walks through the steps needed to use screen as a serial console client and setting up the remote system to answer to serial login requests. Handy for those headless servers when ssh stops working for some reason …

This is quite exciting for me as no one (other than myself) has ever written anything about Annvix before. But today I saw that Linux.com had written a review of Annvix. The title was Annvix: A stable, secure, no-frills server distro and I don't think the reviewer realized quite …

My wife works for a lutheran school as the secretary, the same school my daughter goes to. Unfortunately, it's primarily a Windows environment. It was 100% windows until I donated a linux server to handle their backups. But now that the machine is in there, it opens the door to …

This week's TechMail tip is Use OpenNTPD for time synchronization, which discusses using OpenNTPD (from the OpenSSH team) instead of the older (and more bloated) NPTD.