Dell Computers has a computer recycling program that will pick up boxes of old equipment at your home. Details can be found at http://www.dell4me.com/recycling, which was mentioned in this … Continue reading »
The server’s been hanging intermittently for the past few weeks. It’s not clear what’s wrong: there’s nothing interesting in /var/log/messages, Red Hat kernels should be sufficiently stable nowadays and … Continue reading »
The current project involves VBScript for the server-side scripting language. There may be some performance issues with the DB connections we’re using. Here’s a couple of articles on … Continue reading »
Part of my current project is to come up with a tool to layer various images on each other and finish with a composite picture. ImageMagick does this neatly … Continue reading »
I’m doing coding on my current project, and am getting acquainted with CVS from a developer’s point of view. So, I had my first CVS mishap this morning, where … Continue reading »
Here’s a list of Windows tasks from AnswersThatWork. This just helped me disable QAGENT, the Intuit Quicken background download manager, which had started complaining of some missing file.
Not the best resource, but they seem to have documentation on weird devices and GUI stuff, less for what one would think would be standard topics such as security, running … Continue reading »
An article on Oracle 9i new features. Oracle9i New Features for Oracle8i DBAs I went looking for this because of the whole spfile and init.ora thing.
Found this article on grand unification using Keberos and OpenLDAP. This may come in handy later if we move towards SSO-like solutions in the office, using kerberos to take … Continue reading »
A checklist for Solaris installation. Some of it is relatively obvious, but it’s all there. Solaris Firewall, Example Installation & Configuration