Dec 23, 2012
FBackup 4 a free backup for Windows
As much as we hate to admit it, we need to backup our systems. If you are a systems administrator with a very limited budget you will usually find an affordable way or a home grown solution to backup your servers. Bigger shops usually will use the commercial products like Symantec NetBackup, but smaller shops the cost is big. The nice thing is this will work for your Windows 7, 8, Vista and XP system. You... read more
Dec 22, 2012
How to Create RPM’s from CPAN modules using Cpan2rpm
You know how it is sometimes working on corporate servers that are in DMZ’s and have firewalls blocking them from accessing Internet and getting to modules, programs and such. You can’t directly and you find ways around to get the files to the systems, that’s a good thing and just part of being an admin. Thus is the case in this instance with installing a CPAN program on an RHEL server.... read more
Dec 17, 2012
How To Copy and Paste from Firefox on Android ICS to Evernote App
You know how it is, sometimes you get used to seeing buttons for copy and paste or common keystrokes and there are times they just are not there. Well that’s how it was when I tried to copy a URL in Mozilla Firefox on Android ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich)to Evernote App. After a bit of playing around here’s how I was able to complete the task of copying the URL and some text into Evernote. First... read more
Dec 14, 2012
How To Install clusterssh on Cygwin
ClusterSSH is just one of those handy tools for making changes to many servers at once. A very nice tool for a systems administrator to have. If you are in an enterprise situation where your system is a Windows system and you maintain Linux / Unix systems you ave a few options to manage your systems like VirtualBox, Cygwin, puTTy and many more. Of the ones I mentioned only VirtualBox and Cygwin are ones... read more
Dec 8, 2012
How To Import your iTunes Library to Your Android Device Using Winamp
There are just times when you just scratch your head and wonder why everyone can’t play fair. Well that thought occurred recently when I want to make my iTunes library available to my Android device, in this case my Transformer TF101 tablet. With a bit of searching I found that Winamp has the ability to import my iTunes library and an Android app was available for my tablet. Winamp has been around... read more
