linux
AVG Rescue CD
A great addition for any IT pro’s toolkit which I read about the other day – AVG Rescue CD is bascially a portable version of AVG Anti-Virus running on a Linux live CD. You can use it as a bootable CD or even a bootable USB drive, and the best thing is that it’s free. […]
Build me a PC part 1
One of my friends wanted me to build a PC from scratch, with the parts HE wanted (rather than a pre built one). So I thought ‘lets blog it from the very beginning to the end’. The challenge – a decent PC (not for gaming but one with a bit of grunt and the ability […]
Unix day 1234567890
At 3.31 PST on Friday 13th, or on Valentines day depending whre you live, Unix computer clocks reached the time of 1234567890–1.2 billion seconds elapsed from January 1, 1970, the official beginning of the Unix epoch. The clock is used not just by Unix, but also by Linux, Java, JavaScript, Mac OS X, and various […]
Linux run shell script from terminal window
I don’t use shell scripts too often and had a brain dead moment on how to execute a shell script. So, for the dummies :-), here’s a summary so next time I forget I can quickly look at my posts: For Creating Shell programs # vi filename.sh (vi is one of many text editors for […]
Imaging Software Cheaper Than Ghost
I was after some software to clone a Windows XP machine onto 20 other identical machines – the main idea was to eliminate the need to install XP from scratch on each machine. Now before I go further, I should mention that my client owned a volume license for these XP machines. I did a […]