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Decided to take the plunge yesterday and change from dual booting XP and Ubuntu 8.04 to dual booting XP and Ubuntu 8.10. Bad idea. Instead of an upgrade I just blew away the old installation and installed 8.10. I had no problems whatsoever during the installation or the first boot. I didn’t anticipate any problems [...]

As I will be off to college on Monday I won’t have anywhere near a fraction of the time that I used to for messing about with all my various servers here. I figured it would make a lot more sense to consolidate my various sites onto the one machine if at all possible. So [...]

The latest release of Ubuntu Linux was released today. They like to have unusual product names so this one is called Hardy Heron. The latest release is a long term support (LTS) release which means that Ubuntu will provide patches and updates for three years on the desktop version and five for the server version. [...]

Another hard drive has gone to wherever it is that hard drives go when they die. This one however was in my firewall/router/outgoing proxy server. I noticed lots of disk thrashing going on and couldn’t connect through ssh. Once I hooked up a monitor there were loads of filesystem errors flashing past the console. I [...]

I’ve been debating this with myself for a while now and I’ve decided to forge ahead. When I originally started this blog almost two years ago I originally envisaged it as mainly technology and I.T. related. However as time marched on it has become more of a personal blog. And I thank you my dear [...]

Almost everyone knows that when computers are on a Local Area Network they need unique addresses. As well as unique addresses they need unique names too. In corporations this is usually something logical to them. For instance one company where I worked had a standard of naming their machines by function and location as indeed [...]

Pardon the pun in the title! I was having a few issues with DNS which a few people have notified me about. Kieran wrote about it on his blog and Eoin noticed problems too. Traffic was steadily flowing in so I wasn’t sure if the problem was with my DNS or not. Anyway it appears [...]

I managed to completely screw up my home Active Directory. I managed this by way of a botched installation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 which failed to extend my schema as it was corrupted somewhere along the line. Of course as is usual for me, this provided yet another opportunity to overhaul my home network [...]