by Dorian on February 22, 2012
Centos Network Configuration – is very simple on a full installation. However, I downloaded the Centos’ “Minimal Install” cd and used yum to install various packages I needed. The simple way to do it if you have a standard installation is to use the Network Administration Tool (system-config-network), which is a graphical interface to edit [...]
by Dorian on February 16, 2012
Scalix is now a mature email server, reliable and powerful, that can accommodate environments with thousands of users. Most of the tasks can be accomplished using the web interface, which is a nice and intuitive interface. However, not all the tasks needed for a day to day administration are available from the web interface. Here [...]
by Dorian on April 11, 2011
You have problems on your network? Network is slow or it doesn’t work? Follow this Network troubleshooting Guide to find where the bottleneck is.
by Dorian on April 6, 2011
As a Windows System Administrator, when I compress files in Windows, I don’t always use the same method, because the scenarios are different. Here are a three compression methods and a batch script to automatically compress folders individually.
by Dorian on April 4, 2011
Slow Data Transfer is not Always caused by the Network Slow data transfers are sometimes caused by a slow computer. Determine if the computer is the reason by comparing the transfer speed with a different computer connected on the same switch port. If the speed is the same, the problem is your network. If you [...]
by Dorian on April 4, 2011
When only one computer on your network is slow it is easier to troubleshoot because the problem is isolated.
by Dorian on April 4, 2011
Troubleshoot a Slow Computer Network Your Computer is Slow and Not the Network.
How do we know the server is slow and the problem is not elsewhere?
by Dorian on April 4, 2011
If the entire network or a part of the network is slow, it could mean you have a faulty switch or a you network is wrongly configured. Here are some hints about possible faults.
by Dorian on March 13, 2011
Did you ever wanted to send automatic emails, whether the sending was triggered by an event or just wanted to send the email at a certain time of the day or month?
I am not talking about Email Marketing Software, although that sounds interesting too. I am talking about sending emails from a batch file. You make a backup of a file and need to know when the task was finished or you want to send some files to a group of users, let’s say some weekly reports, logs, the contents of an html form, etc… How do you do that? Here is a real example.