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When you are trying to migrate DNS Servers, http://viewdns.info/dnsrecord/ is really useful. Let’s you look at what is up there so you can easily recreate it and then do the cut over. To remind everyone here is what you have to do. It’s a three step process; Figure out who…

Wow more things to worry about, but the net is : Update your Windows system now. There is a 19 year old bug found in their SChannel security layer. IBM folks discovered it and allows software you download to take control Dark Hotel. This is a targeted attack where people…

I’ve seen quite a few reviews of the two. I’ve been using Lastpass for the last few years and it isn’t expensive ($12) but most reviews seem to prefer 1Password. Last time I tried it it was unusable because it didn’t grok multiple users on the same site (e.g. I…

Well, use task manager for basic performance monitoring Here are some other things: Install chromium which is open source chrome: sudo apt-get install chromium-browser Flash for the last four sites in the world that use it sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree VLC seems way better than the native player sudo apt-get…

Well, I remember well the days of regedit horrors, but it was sure better than .ini files anywhere. Linux has followed much the same evolution going from .conf files to XML files to a binary registry. Of course with Unix, you get now one but four major ways to edit…

It’s a scary world out there and Vlad was wondering what I use to make browsing safer. Here’s a list ordered by how hard it is to live with:: Password manager. There are two good ones. I’ve used Lastpass but 1Password at least is open source so you can inspect…

Well, you have two choices. Manage all your .sh scripts so you know what is happening with your system configuration. Or use etckeeper which pours things into a git repository, so you can play back your /etc changes. Then use the Some cool uses: – For your web server configuration…

Having spent 24 hours trying to figure out how to share a file, it sure doesn’t feel good have so many different versions and release of Linux out there. Over the last two years, we’ve had the (mis)fortune to use a bunch of different Linux distributions so here are the…

ARgh, this should be so simple, but it isn’t. Trying to build a linux file server is complicated mainly because of the network naming (how do you file your server) and the administration of users. Here’s a quick guide for Ubuntu. It is amazing to me it took a whole…

  Small choice UCFF Form factor This idea of a next unit of computing (NUC) that Intel gave name to is just the next in a series of very small form factor PCs that are mainly fanless. So SFF has given way to UCFF (Ultracompact) We have had an Atom…