Archive for January, 2008

another eskom blow…..

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Eksdom has done it again! I honestly don't know what they think when they cut the power, but it's crippling the economy & the country.Due to the many blackouts I've lost a UPS, and a server with 250GB's of very very important company data, which I moved off the old ...

How to shutdown Windows via the network from Linux

Monday, January 28th, 2008

I have a situation where I have 1 large, 1000W UPS & 3 PC's connected to it. But it's a cheapo, so it only has one serial communications port, which is currently connected to my Linux SME 7.2 server. The 2 Windows XP machines won't know if the power is ...