It is that day of the year again, the last friday of July so this could only mean that it is Sysadmin Day.  In short it is time to show your System Administrator that you appreciate their work.  You appreciate the effort that goes into making sure your computer works and communicates with the rest [...]

Good News Everyone.  I have my Cisco router working with my ADSL2+ connection. Well my Netgear router finally gave up the ghost… no smoke, just a few blown capacitors.  It has had a good life, it was originally bought as an ADSL1 router and firmware flashed to be ADSL2+ capable.  Well this forced me to [...]

Just before Christmas I was given the opportunity to test the Telstra T90 mobile phone.  I was quite impressed overall.  I found that it had a good clear sound for audio quality.  I found that the T90 had better reception than my Nokia E51 particularly in several places where I was known not to have [...]

On the 18th of July, I installed a new server, it reminded me how good it is to have a plan going into a server install/replacement.  Things seemed to go fairly well.  I set up the computer in an out of the way location with a network connection.  I began the file transfer, while that [...]

Is there an easy way to build a new computer, copy all the files and user settings from a previous computer and test all the programs?  It has occurred to me that this is something that seems to be fairly time consuming.  Setting up a Windows XP machine is fairly straight forward, put in the [...]

Telstra… you would think after so many years in the game that Telstra would have their act together and be able to realise when they connect a phone that you should test the line to make sure it is working and that it is fault free. I moved house over the weekend of the 27th [...]

Good News Everyone. My mail server is working. It did take an uninstall and a reinstall but I got there. The good news is that I am getting quicker at installing and configuring the Zimbra Software. I didn’t actually find the cause of the original issue, but after the reinstall it has all worked out [...]

Just a quick update for the Useful commands page. SSH The scp Command to copy from a remote server to a local host: scp username@sourcehost:sourcefile /localfolder/destinationfile or scp username@sourcehost:sourcefile username@destinationhost:/localfolder/destinationfile Port Forwarding Allows encrypted data streams between 2 hosts. All traffic coming to port 1234 on the client will be forwarded to port 23(can be [...]

So close yet so far,  I have installed Zimbra on a server at home to take care of my email and messaging requirements.  The install is very easy, it only takes about 30 mins, most of that time was spent waiting for things to load on the old box that I have chosen to test [...]

Those of you with eagle eyes and inquisitive minds will be wondering why I have added a link to a seemingly unrelated web site  under the blog roll.  As you can imagine I am always looking for a new challenge, a way to keep my skills in check and provide a relevant area for me [...]