I suddenly got event id 10015 from DCOM in my print server logs, and there was a lot of them. I found one client generated four errors in one minute.

I've been thinking of starting a blog to keep my thoughts and ideas together in one place. To do this I wanted to use a simple subdomain to nixadmins.net like blog.nixadmins.net.

I remember the first year I tried Linux, I was so totally hyped about it. I started by trying out server software and pretty soon I was hooked on using it. It was great, I could run my own webserver, email server, SQL server and ... and ... and ..., well you get the point I had to try everything. The best part was that everything ran on a 120MHz Cyrix with 64Mb RAM and 8Gb hard drive.

I found this xckd comic very funny. Being a Linux user and using Gentoo from time to time. I compile some programs and in Gentoo, you should know if you tried it, you compile almost everything.

When you set up a new mail server you usually want to run some tests on it to see it delivers the mail like it's supposed to. There are tools out there to do this for you but the easiest way is to use Telnet. Telnet is found on almost any new operating system, and if it's not there you can user your package manager to get a client.

There are more than a few graphical tools to do this but I find the simple command mysqldump to be more than enough for this task.

I use mysqldump for backup and I use it to transfer up to date databases between my production and development servers.

As I use booth Windows and Linux as a desktop and server system I often find myself wondering why a feature that is useful in Linux isn't found in Windows or vice versa.

One of the greatest challenges in administering a large number of computers is software installations and updates. In this short hands on article I will take you through the installation of one of the more popular applications, Acrobat Reader. We will take a look at how to create the needed .msi package and how to deploy it enterprise wide using Microsoft Active Directory.

I have been using different Linux distributions on and of since 2001 and right now I'm using more than one of them. The one this short short story is about is CentOS 5 which is based on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5, so this should also work on RHEL 5 even if I haven't had a chance to test it yet.

One of the few operating systems I've never tried is OpenBSD this quick guide got me inspired to do so. Let's hope it does the same to you.