Here are some GREAT tools to monitor your enterprise network. You probably have heard about many of these, but there are a few that may be new to you. I’ll have a write up with detailed review later on. Service / Devices Nagios – http://www.nagios.com HyperIC – http://www.hyperic.com GroundWork – http://www.groundworkopensource.com/ Zabbix – http://www.zabbix.com/ NetXMS [...]

You probably noticed when you start up your machine, you get a bunch of programs that start that slow down your system. This could be like AIM, Real Audio, Quicktime, Windows media player, etc. You can prevent these from starting up by following these simple steps. 1) Click Start 2) Click run 3) Type in [...]

So you try to create a new user in AD for Exchange and specified an email address, only to find that the address was taken. Then you remember, oh, you gave that address for someone else.. but you forgot who. So HOW to find that email address on where it is attached to. 1) Windows [...]

Unbuntu Netbook Remix is a simple, quick way to get Ubuntu on your netbook. And yes, it is optimized for netbooks. I have Ubuntu 9.10 on my ASUS EEE 1000. Took me about 20 minutes or less to get it up and going. Verizon aircard works like a charm with it too. 1) Download Ubuntu [...]

This could NOT be easier. First, connect to the verizon network using your aircard on a windows machine. I think it just needs this first time authentication. 1) Now on your ubuntu machine, right click on the network applet at the top right and choose edit networks 2) Click the mobile broadband connection tab 3) [...]

After enabling you notice you receive 404 component not found. The fix, ensure under global settings you have Search engine Friendly URLs enabled. Then, ensure your .htaccess is okay. If you have joomla installed in a subfolder, make sure the rewrite base is correct. The fix that worked for me after all of this, was [...]

So you have the blackberry wordpress app. you try to upload an image, and when you view your wordpress page you don’t see images but you see the HTML content. For example. href=”http://www.askshank.com/rwerwer.jpg”img class=”alignnone size-full” src=”http://www.askshank.com/rwerwer.jpg” alt=”” title=”rwerwer.jpg” width=”1600″ height=”1200 SOMETHING like that right? Annoying yes. The fix was upgrading PHP and libxm2. There are [...]