Upgrade time for an older storage server (really a workstation), running Ubuntu 10.04. The old workstation did not have any Sata controllers in it, so I had to install a new MASSCOOL XWT-RC018 run-of-the-mill PCI Sata controller. Popped in two brand new Samsung Spinpoing 1 TB drives (SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 […]
A recent upgrade to a new Ubuntu server version, caused my dovecote server to not be happy. Apparently in my haste, I had kept my old configuration files for Dovecot that had several features replaced or depreciated. I tried removing the package using “apt-get remove dovecot*”, but my config […]
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Recently I worked on a client’s workstation that had a very interesting “infection”. Google internet searches would be redirected to random company websites and the Microsoft Windows Update website refused to load properly. The client was running Avast and SpyBot (with Tea-Timer). I turned up the detection level in Avast […]
