Archive for the ‘General’ Category

How to make Windows auto-login to network shares upon a reboot

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Running a Linux file server, without it being a Domain Controller on a Windows network has it's own set of "pit falls" One of the most annoying problems, is that of mapped network shares, and not being able to automatically logging in once Windows has rebooted. So, currently a Windows ...

4 Port KVM Switch

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

4 port KVM switch with speaker support. Controls 4 PC's from a single PS/2 console. Still in box.

Useful Classified Ads websites

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

I often have some secondhand stuff that I want to sell, and the best place is to sell them on classified adds on the internet. So, here's a list of classified ads that I use from time to time: http://netads.24.com/ http://www.junkmail.co.za/ http://classifieds.iol.co.za/home.php http://www.allclassifieds.co.za/ http://www.adoos.co.za/ http://www.online-classifieds.co.za/classifieds/ http://www.theclassifieds.co.za/ http://www.saeverything.co.za/classifieds.htm http://moneyweb.vottle.com/

crap websites should be BANNED from the internet!!!

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

This irretates me the most, crap / aweful / ugly websites. Browsing through the list of ISP's on the hellkom website looking for something specific, I found at least 20% broken / blocked / "access denied" links, and a further 30% super-pathetic websites! Have you seen how many sites are ...

Some notes on writing a Kickstart file for automated CentOS (or any other Redhard Linux variant) Linux installations

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

I'm busy writing a kickstart file to be used on and automated installation of CentOS Linux on my servers. I basically need a vanilla installation for cPanel, and 90% of the options I choose will always stay the same, like the language / country / time zone / packages / ...