I am reevaluating my decision of becoming an Apple fan or not… And I tend towards becoming one. Just because of the excellent marketing and the excellent hardware! But the software isn’t that bad either! Mac OS X, once you get a bit used to it, might become your favorite OS! Of course, it has [...]

I just encountered this problem: I have an Ubuntu box, on which ran this downloading service. Because some complaints from the Internet provider, I decided to use another network (from another provider) for this downloading service. Everything else needed to remain the same. So I installed a new network card on the system, and it [...]

Of course, most Solaris users are at an advanced level and those little nice things in a Linux console don’t matter that much. But I like to be more productive and enjoy using all the features I can get from a console. So here’s how I am customizing my Solaris console: 1. I am using [...]

For security reasons, I had to set all my server’s firewalls to accept connections on the SSH port (22) only from my office IP. I would have added my home IP addres in the access list, if it would have been static. But at home I have a dynamic IP so I can’t use IP-based [...]