Archive for the 'Tech Support' Category


Administrative access on linux systems

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

Tux magazine has a comparison of su and sudo as ways to administer a linux system. Many people are under the mistaken impression that you just login as root (gui or otherwise) and that’s the only way to do it. In fact, I’ve used su primarily. Although in some circumstance sudo has it’s benefits.    […]

A tun of trouble….

Monday, August 15th, 2005

Sorry, VERY bad pun but I couldn’t resist. I mentioned that I was having tun difficulties that kept me from playing around with anything fancy networking-wise with qemu. For starters let me see if I can explain what tun is. Tun is a method of creating a point-to-point “imaginary” network connection between a program and […]

Fantastic command reference for Windows, Linux, Apple and Oracle

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

This is going to be a reference to a really great site. I’ve used this several times and it’s wonderful. ss64.com Is a reference site that gives you a command lookup for    Send article as PDF   

Linux: Using Mandrake (Mandriva’s) URPMI tool

Monday, August 8th, 2005

As background for this, I’ve used Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva) for my main desktop since around 8.2 I can’t remember quite how long ago that’s been, but around 3 to 4 years I think. The why is something best saved for another writeup. Early on I was frustrated by installing software. I read everyone give […]

Simple Backup

Monday, August 8th, 2005

This is going to explain some ideas for a really simple way to make your own backup routine.    Send article as PDF   

How do I find my IP address

Monday, July 25th, 2005

This is one that can be handy from time to time, trying to find your ip address. If you’re on a lan there aren’t too many ways to find your public ip within the operating systems software. However, under Windows if you go to, Start, Run and then type cmd and press enter you’ll get […]

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