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For what seems like forever, I've been trying to get Linux workstations and servers to communicate and share files via Samba.  We won't get into the complete lack of coherent…

I was just at the codex.wordpress.com wordpress support site about manually resetting a password.  They had some long drawn out procedure involving a text file and the md5 command to…

A quote came up this morning while watching videos by "Playing for Change." Quite a few of these videos bring tears of joy. Thank you Joanne Arnold for linking to…

This just came across my facebook feed.  It's almost perfect.  I'm going argue some of it's points. Being Pagan "The term Pagan applies to any faith other than: Christianity, Judaism…

I'm going start this with a nerd reference. Luke Skywalker said to Yoda after Yoda used the force to get Luke's fighter out of the swamp on Degobah, "I don't…

Well it's taken me days to find the solution to get postfix, saslauthd to work with a remote imap server. It turns out that the key is saslauthd runs chrooted…

If you power up a virtual machine, especially linux, you won't get access to the console until the unit is either almost fully booted or fully booted. So if your…

Out on the Maine turnpike yesterday, I got a speeding ticket from an state trooper in an unmarked light brown Ford Crown Victoria near exit 43 (Maine Mall).  He got…

Had a whole host of errors while working with a new Sharepoint Server installation.  I'm using Sharepoint 2010.  I couldn't add document libraries to subsites.  I couldn't update information in…

I've been working on getting webdav enabled on my webservers at xyonet.com. It's been a bit of an adventure. My brother is a developer working from a Mac. He's been…