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Great Ubuntu and Windows Site

March 19th, 2009 No comments

Decent technical advice can be hard to find, found this site via twitter (follow me http://www.twitter.com/howtolinux).  

Well worth a read - http://www.ossramblings.com/

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Experts Exchange – How To Remove Them From Your Search Results

February 11th, 2009 No comments

Its annoying, everytime you search for a problem, experts exchange obscures the better results.  I just read this and thought it was fantastic - http://www.cultofgary.com/2008/10/22/excluding-experts-exchange-from-search-results/

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Love Savage Chicken

February 5th, 2009 No comments

Savage Chicken

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Skype 4.0 – Great Looking New Skype

February 3rd, 2009 No comments

Cool, Skype has been updated.  Most of the updates seems to be cosmetic, but they claim that the call quality is better, but then again, don’t they always!!!


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How to Use Open Source with LogMeIn

February 3rd, 2009 No comments

I found this article pretty useful, it describes how to use free and opensource tools with Logmein to offer remote administration tools.

Check it out at - http://www.dailycupoftech.com/2009/01/27/expanding-your-logmein-frees-abilities/

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Combined Windows Remote Desktop and SSH Tunnel Admin Tool

February 3rd, 2009 No comments

I love Apples remote desktop tool, it was a great all round administration tool. Since I moved away from Macs to Linux and Windows Server I have been looking for a combined tool for both Windows Remote Desktop and SSH sessions.

Found this one, looks interesting – http://www.visionapp.com/vrd09-functionality.html. It has a evaluation for 30 days and then limits some of the functionality.

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A Good Centos System Administration Book

February 3rd, 2009 No comments

I have been a big fan of the unleashed guides every since I purchased Mac OS X Tiger Unleashed. I loved this book as it was both great for beginners but had some reallly good advanced sections that allowed me to learn some great stuff on mac os x.

So, naturally, when I was looking for a guide to Centos, I purchased another unleashed book. As you probably know, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Centos are basically the same product, minus the proprietary Redhat pieces and non GPL pieces that are not legally available for free. CentOS takes the GPL portions and repackages them as CentOS. This logically led me to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed. I found this to be a decent book that is great starting point for using Centos, though not as advanced as I would have liked.





Anyone have any suggestions for an advanced system admin book for Centos?

Google releases Network Tools

February 1st, 2009 No comments

Useful networking Tools now being provided with the help from Google – http://www.measurementlab.net/

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Dilbert

January 29th, 2009 No comments

Dilbert.com

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Very Cool Desktop Images

December 16th, 2008 No comments
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