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Linux & Active Directory

February 14, 2007 - Computers , Linux , Technology , Windows - by admin - 1 Comment

I used to deal with Linux in Active Directory quite a bit, especially with Winbind, Samba and Active Directory. It’s amazing how quickly things change, and I already feel as if my knowledge is atrophying at an exponential rate…

Worlds Largest Drain

February 14, 2007 - Cool things - by admin - No Comments

MrLithic alerted me to this blog post about the worlds largest drain hole. This is the kind of engineering I like. Machines or mechanisms that are just so big and powerful that it defies most normal thinking. Now… where’s my swimming kit

Star Trek Periodic Table

February 11, 2007 - Internet , Web - by admin - 2 Comments

My Sunday evening trawl of the information supahhighway has turned up this little gem in the spoil. If you ever thought that chemistry was boring, then this might bring a little smile to your face. Update – My mistake, the site doesn’t allow direct referrals. Instead, head over to the […]

Zap Bugs

February 10, 2007 - Asterisk , Bugs , Computers , Linux , VoIP - by admin - No Comments

A couple of weeks ago, I commented on a bug that is affecting Zaptel software and hardware, both on the bug tracker, and more recently on the Asterisk users mailing list. Maybe I’m going about it the wrong way, but absolutely nobody seems to be interested in what appears to […]

Transparent proxy

February 9, 2007 - Computers , Linux , Web - by admin - No Comments

Just finished setting up a transparent proxy at home, to keep track of some visitors to my network. I have a Linux machine acting as a router, but it doesn’t have that much power, and a much more powerful server acting as the proxy server. For this reason, Step 6 […]