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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 [...]

This exploit is no longer viable and the issue was resolved not long after discovery around November 2007. As is the case with almost all software, it always pays to keep your software updated.. Firstly, before I continue this post you do change your passwords regularly don’t you? I was having a look over my [...]

While waiting for baby to arrive I’ve been tidying things up here a bit in anticipation that I won’t have much time to spend messing about with all my equipment. Subsequently over the weekend I have consolidated my site on to my Poweredge 2800. Everything is now running off the one machine including MySQL. So [...]

Donncha who is one of the developers behind the hugely popular WordPress software released his new project yesterday. As I’m always looking to squeeze any extra performance out of my site that I can I had to give it a whirl. The very page that you are looking at now is served to you by [...]

I’ve been making some major changes to my setup here at home this weekend and I’m not sure if everything is working as it should be. I’m getting visitors as normal but I haven’t had a chance to check from another connection. For my frequent visitors: Have you noticed things are slower or quicker? Are [...]

It’s the first time in years that I’m actually excited about a new release of an operating system. How sad is that? Oddly enough the last time it was for a different version of the same operating system. Back in 2000 I actually bought an Apple iMac specifically because OS X was due to be [...]

Now up and running on Fedora 7. anything unusual or acting weird please let me know.

If anything here isn’t working like it should it is just temporary. I’ve decided to revamp my webserver. For the next few hours the site is being served from a virtual machine while I install another OS on the other server. My primary reason for this was that administration of the Ubuntu based server was [...]