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Tales from Craigslist: The Boss is in my network.
TweetI have a Linksys BEFSX41 router for sale on Craigslist. While that’s not unusual, the call I got asking about it was very unusual. A gentleman in Broward called asking if he could VPN to a Watchguard firewall but not exactly. He was unable to describe what exactly he was trying to do so I [...]
Full StoryHow to Survive a Traffic Spike. Lessons Learned From Being [Temporarily] Popular.
TweetMy last post on how Linux saved my contracting company was pretty damn popular. I seriously don’t think I will ever see a spike in traffic that big ever again. But did you notice that I never went down or got slow? The server still chugged along like nothing happened. I anticipated the spike just [...]
Full StoryHow Linux Saved A Fast Food Giant.
I am a Windows guy. I have always used Windows at home, work, school, everywhere with the exception of my phone and one Linux class at FIU. I have an A+ and MCTS in Windows Vista. Soon I will have my MCITP. I drink the cool aid. But Linux saved me and the company I sub-contract to, a large fast food giant, from near total disaster. Last month McAfee posted a virus definition update that flagged SVCHOST.EXE as a virus. This is my story of what happened.
Full StoryReboot a Windows PC Remotely.
TweetHere is an interesting problem I ran into today. Even a week after McAfee destroyed almost 700 of our workstations, I was cleaning up the mess. So here is the situation. I was remotely connected to a site in the middle of nowhere Ohio with a connection so slow it takes minutes to do things [...]
Full StoryChanging your IP and more in Red Hat.
Tweet Image by afsilva via Flickr I thought this would be a useful post for some of you out there. For only the second time in my professional career, I have encountered a Linux box in the workplace. This one was a VMWare ESX server running on top of an unknown install. To find out [...]
Full StoryInstalling MSI Packages with Elevated Privileges
TweetMy buddy Danny found this great tip for any Windows admin out there. You know how frustrating this can be so write this down! Clipped from: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsXP/RegistryTips/Security/InstallingMSIPackageswithElevatedPrivileges.html RunAs is a great way of temporarily elevating your privileges to admin level when you are logged on as an ordinary user. However, while you can right-click on [...]
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