Mr N

I had tried to jump on to the cloud password manager band wagon last year with Lastpass but it was a spectacular failure. I installed the Lastpass Firefox plugin, it asked me if I wanted to import all my existing usernames and passwords, then it… more »

I answer a lot of Unix shell scripting questions for friends (I know, sad isn't it) but as I haven't written a blog article for a while I thought I document my thoughts in case the rest of world needs something similar. Question have a file of IP… more »

When you clone a VirtualBox machine in order to create a new virtual machine (as opposed to creating a back up of an existing machine) then you must check Reinitialize the MAC address of all network cards and use the Full clone type to make sure that th… more »

From time to time I need to allow one user to log into another machine without being prompted for a password. This is extremely useful for anything that is automated for example doing the nightly backup which copies files across the network or running c… more »

Before updating a system file I'll take a backup copy of it. The less imaginative of you will choose a backup name like file.bak or file2. Some of you will use your initials, especially if you work in an environment where you might run into your colleag… more »