In the long forgotten days of NT4, there was not Unicode. In these older days, one could use English, and the language the server machine was predefined for. In our poor and sad case, English alone. This is a story of a poor filer, member of a multi-site NT4 domain, which, due to latency and…
Here’s a little issue. If you were to replicate MS Exchange DB from one machine to another, how/what would you have done? The scenario goes as follows: You have your own domain, and you use, for your own core services AD and MS Exchange for the whole organization. While AD supports some built-in replication, so…
I am not a security expert. I know my way, and I can use common sense, which is the best practice for a good security, but I get to hear terrible things. Not only the hunt for file sharing people is on full throttle, but media companies try (and succeed) in providing yet better, meaner,…
When I’ve created my setup (displayed below), I took into account the possibility of disconnection, or process fall, and I’ve left pppd to deal with it, by trying to connect just as it has fallen down. It was a good solution for the scenarios where there is a temporary, short timed disconnection. It fails to…
It has been long time since I’ve written here before. I got lazy, but I have few new things to share with whoever reads this blog, and myself, for future reference. First – I’ve got a nice VGA card from a friend of mine, a nice looking TI8200 x8, which is a great upgrade comparing…
I have noticed there is no fixed guide for L2TP for cable connection in Israel. Since I’ve been doing just this thing today, I’ve decided to put online my own comments on the issue, with hope it would help other people too. Subject: L2TP cables connection to an ISP called Actcom in Israel, using Fedora…
