Posted in Technology, The System Admin Zone on Oct 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Emulation is one thing and virtualisation is another.
And virtualisation is now mainstream with good, free, tools available for all three main host operating systems (OS): Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux.
For Windows and Mac you can use MS Virtual PC (in reality on a Mac OSX, PowerPC system, this is an emulator of course).
VirtualBox, also free, [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, The Main Thread, The System Admin Zone on Sep 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Even though I have my own secure IMAP services, and can change my mail quotas to what I want, it is still useful to restricted quota amounts for sensible storage management. I noticed a while back that Thunderbird was showing the IMAP quota in the status bar on some accounts and not others…
It turns [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, The Main Thread, The System Admin Zone on Jul 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Its happened again…
And, as usual, there’s a (possibly too long) story to introduce it.
As an IT professional one of my standard jokes (either to myself or with others) is that if I could just have back all that time I spent waiting for Windows to re-boot. Install a driver, re-boot, test, still doesn’t work, edit [...]
Posted in The System Admin Zone on Jun 18th, 2006 No Comments »
If you are running Windows based infrastructure and need directory based quota’ing (a feature you would have grown use to in Netware since about 1992 :) ) check out Windows 2003 release 2 (R2).
In 2003SP1 user based quota’ing on ‘home drives’ works fine but has proved to be a real pain on group [...]
Posted in The System Admin Zone on Apr 16th, 2006 No Comments »
If you are running a small to medium size system and want to gather statistics, have a systems are ‘go/stop’ type monitoring console, and, say, get emailed when one of your web servers or switches goes down have a look at OpManager from the folks at AdventNet. Its a java based thing which [...]
Posted in The System Admin Zone on Mar 9th, 2005 No Comments »
Having spent a little time beating my head against the XCACLS and SUBINACL wall to fix a problem I was having I did what we always do and went looking for a good third party freeware tool to solve the problem.
The problem is I am migrating my users home drives to a new server on [...]
Posted in The System Admin Zone on Feb 11th, 2005 No Comments »
You know the problem, lots of things one should document but potentially doesn’t because there’s not an easy way to do it. Lots of word documents, lots of web pages which have to be structured in someway by hand? Has to be a better way..
A thought inspired by Emma Tonkin in her Ariadne article Making [...]
Posted in Cultural, The System Admin Zone on Feb 9th, 2005 1 Comment »
Running student or public workstations has always been a time-consuming task from the perspective of setting them up so they are ‘locked down’. I have been using Public Web Browser (PWB) as part of the solution on both some public terminals and some internal machines which require restricted web browsing access.
PWB is very configurable (removing [...]