So I managed to get my hands on one of these sexy little device and I must say, I’m damn impressed. What’s rather amusing is holding up the laptop in its leather case to a few friends and saying; what do you think this is? By far the most amusing comment so far was “Is it a mans handbag?”. Being...

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of installing and configuring a VPN link between an outdated Linux box and a Sonicwall TZ170. Oh the joys I had in getting this to work .. The Sonicwall device was located in a data center, whilst the Linux machine was located in an office protecting a 192.168.0.0/24...

One of the biggest problems I faced when I made the switch to Ubuntu was my workplace. You see, I’m often assigned to projects that require me to work on websites and online systems using ASP.NET and C#. It’s these projects that require me to have access to Visual Studio 2005 and mSQL on...

So I felt like some instant messaging action and my favorite IM client at the moment is web based Meebo, which allows you to log into multiple IM networks using the one sexy, Ajax client otherwise known as Meebo. But BAM, Firefox closed without a hint of what the problem was. So I tried again, typed...

Whoa. I didn’t think this was possible.. BUT If you’re a twitter addict, there there’s no better client like Twhirl. Twhirl uses the Adobe Air platform which is currently supported on Windows and Mac, and I found out today that there is an Alpha version which runs on Linux! My man Seth...

Okay I just stumbled upon the coolest Unbuntu feature (gnome..) yet. Nautilus image resizer allows you to quickly “highlight” multiple image files, right click, select Image Resize and wham – all your images get resized in a batch process. It’s the quickest and easiest way to...

With the release of Google Chrome last week, it was interesting to see all the articles that popped up with Linux users installing Google Chrome (Which is a windows product at present) on Linux. The biggest problem I found was that you need the latest version of WINE to get this working, and no amount...

Need to quickly tar and gzip an entire folder? Try the command below! tar -cvzpf filename.tar.gz /path/to/folder

Every network administrator at some stage in their career will come into trouble with the influx of spam during their career because, quite simply, spammers are smart. If you did a Google search for “Linux Anti-Spam”, you’ll be bombarded with tutorials using the infamous, free, SpamAssassin...

If you’re receiving duplicate emails on your postfix engine, check the mailq and you will probably see error messages which relate to “trace service failed”. It most likely means that your Postfix engine is using an older config file. Give the following a whirl. postfix upgrade-configuration then /etc/init.d/postfix...

“The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available” Try apt-key add /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg Then apt-get update apt-get install package-name If that doesn’t work, check that you have the debian-archive-keyring package. apt-get...

Ezbounce is a cool peice of software that has many useful features for the hardcore IRC user. If your a regular IRC user who wants to hide your identity, stay connected to channels whilst offline and have a centralized IRC session – be sure to check this guide out. From the ezbounce website. ezbounce...