Installing Zimbra Collaboration Suite On Ubuntu 12.04
Background Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a fantastic email and collaboration solution made by VMware. Zimbra is my email server solution of choice, because it’s very easy to setup, and the features...
View ArticleLinux Vinyl Plotting With A Gerber enVision Plotter
I recently had the opportunity to work with an older Gerber enVision plotter from a township. I had major difficulties getting the old version of Omega working with their USB licensing stick, and I...
View ArticleWAN Load Balancing
We ran into an issue at work where we needed faster Internet (or more bandwidth,)… The prices for our current ISP’s were higher than we had hoped for faster Internet, but we would like fail over as...
View ArticleShattered Hard Drive
I recently had a laptop brought down for not working. It had no cosmetic issues that looked like it had dropped however the student had noticed that when the laptop was shook… violently shook, it...
View ArticleQuick and easy MSRDP script
I love Linux, but as we all know we have to work on windows computers usually on a day-to-day basis. We have servers we constantly have to RDP (remote desktop) into to work with active directory, etc....
View ArticleCheap spectrum analysis for wireless
When I was going through college for networking I learned to hate wireless. I had come to learn that it was insecure, unreliable, unpredictable, and difficult to troubleshoot. I got into a job I love...
View ArticleWeb filter testing…
We have been having filtering issues at work. The only pattern I can see is that upon heavy Internet use (40+Mb) the filtering services have a hard time keeping up. The problem is that Internet usage...
View ArticleReceiving RSS Updates Via Email
If you’re like me, you rely on your email for everything in your life. My email delivers my latest Facebook notifications, Nagios warnings, text messages (thanks to Google Voice), and oh I guess...
View ArticleUser Tracking and Logon Agents
We believe that tracking when users log into a computer is very good information. We can easily look up where students log in, track computer usage, aid with helpdesk tasks, etc. Our primary focus...
View ArticleSubscriber Account Cleaning
This is just a brief notice to inform you, due to a large amount of illegitimate accounts created on Binary Impulse, I have performed some database cleaning to remove accounts which I believe were spam...
View ArticleInstalling Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 on Ubuntu 12.04 (Using PlayOnLinux)
After having very much difficulty installing Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 on Ubuntu 12.04 with the latest version of WINE (WINE 1.5.20) I decided to look again at the AppDB. I found that Dragon...
View ArticleSafely Removing Gnome-Keyring From Xubuntu 12.04
In previous Linux deployments, we have had problems with people’s keyring passwords being forgotten or not working, to the point where the universal response if you ask anyone what to do when the Gnome...
View ArticleSample debug output code for BASH/SHELL
When trying to debug your own scripts it can be difficult to see exactly what you want. Pages of white text scrolling across the screen. Here is a quick flexible function that can make life a whole...
View ArticleSSH Tunneling on Windows Using PuTTY
Imagine if you will; you are at work or school and you need to access a site, but its blocked. So being the tech savvy person you are you try a proxy tunnel and that too is blocked. What do you do?...
View ArticleInstalling & Configuring A Vanilla Wolfenstein Enemy Territory Dedicated...
Background Wolfenstein Enemy Territory is a free-to-play multiplayer game, based on World War II “Allies vs. Axis” style combat. It is a first-person shooter game, but it has objective-based gameplay....
View ArticleHP Array Configuration Utility Command Cheat Sheet
New to the HP Array Configuration Utility? Me too, so I did some Googling and found an awesome cheat sheet. I don’t want to steal any credit from its original authors, but I do think it should be...
View ArticleInstalling HP Array Configuration Utility (HP ACU) on Ubuntu 12.04
This guide will help you get up and running with HP’s command line Array Configuration Utility (ACU) on Ubuntu 12.04. This guide may will be especially useful if you have an HP Proliant server, or an...
View ArticleRunning Wolfenstein Enemy Territory At Native 1920×1080 Resolution (on Windows)
A lot of people I play Enemy Territory with have been contemplating switching to a version of the program called ET Legacy, and their reasoning is generally related to screen resolutions. Wolfenstein...
View ArticleRunning Land Elevation Surveys With Google Earth
Background Information Living in a rural area, I am often tasked with finding ways to connect remote sites to the Internet in places where cable and DSL are not available. In these situations, the...
View ArticleTeamviewer with UAC and Administrative Rights
Ran into an issue with a user where I needed to remotely access their computer. They needed software installed ASAP and of course did not have admin access to the computer. I had them go to...
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