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One of my clients called me reporting that their server stopped responding and so they rebooted. Upon reboot, the server seemed to hang forever and would not actually boot. I attempted to boot into safe mode, nothing, active directory restore mode, nothing, recover console, nothing.

Next step is to boot the windows 2000 server CD-ROM and run a repair (note be very careful about trying this on a domain controller, PLEASE BACKUP YOUR SYSTEM BEFORE TRYING ANY of THIS STUFF, USE GHOST AND BACKUP THE ENTIRE DRIVE TO AN IMAGE FILE SO THAT YOU HAVE A BASELINE TO GO BACK TO)

Even running the command from the recover console would not allow me to boot and do anything. Never before had I been so completely locked out of a system.

Ok so you have just installed Debian for the first time and now want to do something useful with this new Linux box. How about we set up a web server that has php and mysql support. Then we will install phpMyAdmin to make it easier to manage the databases. If you have no idea how to install Debian, see the post, How to get started with Debian before attempting this part.

Lets log on to the Debian box as root.


apt-get upgrade update
apt-get install apache
apt-get install phpmyadmin
apt-get install mysql-server


Don’t forget to change the root passwords for this stuff. To test it get the ip address of your Debian box using the

Recently, it has come to my attention that some of my customers are wanting to have an automated way to set their profiles stored on a server so they can roam around and get their profile where ever they go. I decided to write an article on how to do just that.

Configuring a Roaming User Profile
You can configure a roaming profile by using the following procedure.
To configure a roaming profile for users:
1. Create a folder on the server where user profiles will be stored. This will be the top-level folder that contains all the individual user profiles.
2. Configure the folder as a shared folder, and give all users Full Control permissions.

One of my clients called me reporting that their server stopped responding and so they rebooted. Upon reboot, the server seemed to hang forever and would not actually boot. I attempted to boot into safe mode, nothing, active directory restore mode, nothing, recover console, nothing.

Next step is to boot the windows 2000 server CD-ROM and run a repair (note be very careful about trying this on a domain controller, PLEASE BACKUP YOUR SYSTEM BEFORE TRYING ANY of THIS STUFF, USE GHOST AND BACKUP THE ENTIRE DRIVE TO AN IMAGE FILE SO THAT YOU HAVE A BASELINE TO GO BACK TO)

Even running the command from the recover console would not allow me to boot and do anything. Never before had I been so completely locked out of a system.

Ok so you have just installed Debian for the first time and now want to do something useful with this new Linux box. How about we set up a web server that has php and mysql support. Then we will install phpMyAdmin to make it easier to manage the databases. If you have no idea how to install Debian, see the post, How to get started with Debian before attempting this part.

Lets log on to the Debian box as root.


apt-get upgrade update
apt-get install apache
apt-get install phpmyadmin
apt-get install mysql-server


Don’t forget to change the root passwords for this stuff. To test it get the ip address of your Debian box using the

Recently, it has come to my attention that some of my customers are wanting to have an automated way to set their profiles stored on a server so they can roam around and get their profile where ever they go. I decided to write an article on how to do just that.

Configuring a Roaming User Profile
You can configure a roaming profile by using the following procedure.
To configure a roaming profile for users:
1. Create a folder on the server where user profiles will be stored. This will be the top-level folder that contains all the individual user profiles.
2. Configure the folder as a shared folder, and give all users Full Control permissions.

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I wanted to share a little story of an unethical company who's business practices leave much to be desired. This company's name is McKenzie Management located in La Jolla, California. Their website is http://www.mckenziemgmt.com

The reason for this article is to warn any future techs who may come in contact with this company not to do business with them. This company has a history of using a tech, running up a bill and not paying them. I was a little sketch about working for them because I was taking the account over from another computer tech. I spoke with the tech and asked him the question, is this a good client to have? After a long pause, he gave me a somewhat grudging and disconcerting, "uhh ya there ok..." Not listening to my better sense, I went ahead and proceed to give my professional recommendations to them.

TuxOnIce is most easily described as the Linux equivalent of Windows’ hibernate functionality,but better. It saves the contents of memory to disk and powers down. When the computer is started up again, it reloads the contents and the user can continue from where they left off. No documents need to be reloaded or applications reopened and the process is much faster than a normal shutdown and start up.

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Ever since windows SP2 came out and microsoft has gotten security crazy (deploying security when it would be useless and not deploying it when you most need it) There has been the windows firewall.

On a large scale domain, the windows firewall can cause significant problems and is completely unnecessary. It can stop you from printing to network printers, stop your logon scripts from mapping network drives, and other things that will drive you crazy enough to pull out your hair.

What makes it worse is when you join windows XP to a windows 2003 server. By default, the domain controller strips away your ability to turn off the firewall and there is no easy solution to turn it off... that is untill now.