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Almost everyone knows that when computers are on a Local Area Network they need unique addresses. As well as unique addresses they need unique names too. In corporations this is usually something logical to them. For instance one company where I worked had a standard of naming their machines by function and location as indeed [...]

I managed to completely screw up my home Active Directory. I managed this by way of a botched installation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 which failed to extend my schema as it was corrupted somewhere along the line. Of course as is usual for me, this provided yet another opportunity to overhaul my home network [...]

I have an apology to make. Actually I have two. To any person living in China or India, thank you for trying to leave a comment on my site. Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate the time and effort that you went through to compose your less than useless comment. Sadly though, it was just [...]

While waiting for baby to arrive I’ve been tidying things up here a bit in anticipation that I won’t have much time to spend messing about with all my equipment. Subsequently over the weekend I have consolidated my site on to my Poweredge 2800. Everything is now running off the one machine including MySQL. So [...]

Donncha who is one of the developers behind the hugely popular WordPress software released his new project yesterday. As I’m always looking to squeeze any extra performance out of my site that I can I had to give it a whirl. The very page that you are looking at now is served to you by [...]

Obsessing as I do over my log files I noticed a crawler indexing every page on my blog. Nothing unusual there except it was a crawler I had never seen before and was rapidly going through my site. In their useragent string was a URL so off I went there to find out some more. [...]

I’ve been making some major changes to my setup here at home this weekend and I’m not sure if everything is working as it should be. I’m getting visitors as normal but I haven’t had a chance to check from another connection. For my frequent visitors: Have you noticed things are slower or quicker? Are [...]

Back in April I was having serious problems with my DSL. Sometimes my eircom supplied Netopia DSL modem/router would lose its connection every now and then. After a while it refused point blank to sync at all. So I replaced the router with another Netopia. Not long after the same problem reared its ugly head. [...]