I had just had a bit of an "oh shit" moment! So thought I'd blog how I got out of it.
Parallels is the company that produces Plesk. On the whole it's a pretty good bit of server software which helps to manage a single machine that supports many virtu… more »
Category: "System Admin"
CentOS 5.5 is dependant on Python 2.4. Everything will break if you change it, so we must install a newer version of Python in a different place.
Surprisingly my 1&1 CentOS didn't come with gcc installed so I had to install it myself.
yum -y i… more »
Working in I.T. means that I have several email addresses or more specifically I receive email sent to me on several email addresses. When Acme Corporation asks me to build their network I create the email address acme@example.com for them to use.… more »
I've kind of got used to Ed Wilson's chaotic style of presenting. He must be clever to achieve such a position inside Microsoft, but each of his presentations looks and feels as though he has done no preparation what so ever. It really comes over as off the cuff with all the problems associated with that. Here we are in part 4; in real time this is the fourth consecutive day he has presented and again it really feels like he hasn't bothered with his practice run. more »
Working with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) information to retrieve essential information
Part 3 of a 5 part series.
Event logs
These commands will work on the local machine or a machine across the network. Most of the EventLog comman… more »