Monthly Archives: December 2005

In a previous post, I talked about my new love for Trustix. I will attempt to document another installation using Trustix to act as a Windows Server for Microsoft Domain Controller Services, File Sharing, and a web server. Even though I am going through this process for my home server – this is the exact [...]

Yes, the environment around the I.T. department continues to change. Soon it will be a distant memory of the past – where the definition of a ‘good’ I.T. employee was a knowledgeable techie in their area (I don’t like the word geek).   Information Technology departments are looking for more than someone who just is [...]

In a previous post, I summarized an experience with a newfound love – Trustix. Today, I’ll try and detail how to go through this install. First, There is a special 30 meg network-based installation ISO image for 3.0 in the download area called trustix-3.0-net.i586.iso. It includes the PXEboot support files. However, if you download this [...]

It finally dawned on me the other day – that instead of trying to install what most distributions call a minimal install (500+ Meg) and then trying to figure out what all I can remove afterwards, how about starting with a distribution that truly is minimal and then adding only what I need afterwards. I [...]

If I came home and told my wife that I started ‘folding’ today – she would ask me why I don’t do it at home. I had never heard of ‘Folding’ before recently discovering it on hackaday.  However, it looked very interesting so I began investigating. What is Folding? Folding@home is a distributed client computing [...]

What a waste, pictured below is a rack almost completely full of Cisco equipment that gets hardly used ever. The original intent was to use for CCIE study, which by the way has all the equipment needed for that, but is currently not being used. SSH access is available to this rack from the internet. [...]