Category: Operating Systems

Last night I had a Windows 2003 web server become compromised. It appears the attacker deleted the boot.ini / NTLDR files to prevent the system from starting up. The problem was a little tricky to troubleshoot, but with the right …

UltimaGuy writes “With speculation of a ship date for Windows Vista ranging in the second part of 2006, word has surprisingly surfaced that it can be expected much earlier. BusinessWeek has received a copy of the internal blog of Chris …

After evaluating a number of products I found NoCat to be the best open source solution for building hot spots. We aren’t an ISP, but we often host seminars where techie clients need Internet access. To effectively isolate …

After a horrible experience using Windows XP 64-bit, I decided to give Linux a chance to prove 64-bit technology is mature enough for production use. The server is going to be doing a “minimal” installation which should keep things …

One of the biggest parts of my job is managing website log files. Our business is very “marketing-centric”, so missing log file data isn’t expectable. There have been a few situations were log files have been split or broken. Below …

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Over the weekend it appears my “play” FreeBSD / CPanel server decided it no longer wanted to “play”. Although it can still serve up webpage’s, it appears to have lost most of its shared libraries (breaking MySQL …

Approximately one week ago I was given an assignment to create a new dedicated server for a client. This would not be worth discussing in any normal situation, but as usual around here, this was a far from a normal …