When using SSL connections ot an ldap server (active directory) the ldap functions worked with non-SSL connections but not with ldaps connections. I believe this is because I was using [...]

I had initially installed Windows 7 then Ubuntu 9.10 on a singe SATA disk. Later I added an IDE disk and plugged in the SATA DVD drive and can no [...]

My sister had an issue with somehow moving the panels to different sides of the screen so to lock them down: In a terminal type: gconf-editor Expand apps > panel [...]

On Debian-based systems adding a script to runlevels is accomplished with the following (assuming you have the script in /etc/init.d): update-rc.d -f myservicename start 80 2 3 4 5 . [...]

For a backup server which we may want to run as read-only for short maintenance periods the following may be useful.Method 1: Global read_onlyLogin to MySQL and set the read_only [...]

Some small steps with DVD-RAM on Ubuntu 9.10. I inserted a blank DVD-RAM disk and it was not automatically mounted. I tried mounting but there was no filesystem, so I [...]

As an extra precaution to protect data in the cloud I set up a free Backupify account which can be configured to make daily/weekly backups of Blogs, Gmail, Google Docs [...]

Ophcrack LiveCD can be used to recover lost Windows passwords based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. [...]

On Ubuntu (9.10) choose System > Preferences > WindowsChange the ‘Alt’ click behaviour to the ‘Super’ key.

Some users where complaining about the Offline Address Book being out-of-date. Checking the Event Viewer on the cluster node which creates the OAB showed the following error: OALGen detected that [...]