Make a backup copy of your AD before you go any further.

Install your new server, and join it to the domain as a member server. Before you can run dcpromo on the new 2008 server, you must run adprep on your schema master, to prepare the Active Directory schema …

Here are two simple scripts written in Python to fetch information about users from Active Directory. The AD schema has been augmented with the Microsoft Services For Unix schema, which will allow to map Unix uids to Windows user accounts.

All you need to do is to fill in your …

First, create a user account for your Apache in the Active Directory. Let's assume the AD Kerberos realm is KOO.FI, and the user name we have created is "apache". Also create a computer account, let's call that "apachesrv".

Next, create two keytab files on the Windows server. One host …

Getting the HP Array Configuration Utility (ACU) and the Array Diagnostic Utility (ADU) for Linux to work was non-trivial. It does not seem to be supported anymore, but I managed to get it working on CentOS 5 running on an HP ProLiant DL185 G5.

First, install compatibility packages:

sudo yum …

First, let me tell you some first impressions about the machine. The keyboard is very good. It feels even a bit better than the one in my old T60. The display is very bright and sharp, but viewing angles could be better. WLAN worked right out of the box, as …

A backup server was saturating the DSL links of remote offices every time the backups were running. To prevent this, I had to limit the incoming bandwidth of the TCP-connections that were used to back up the remote hosts, but not touch the ones that were used to connect to …

Here's a description how to do it without any extensions:

http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2008/01/21/how-to-make-image-links-in-mediawiki

First, you must install fileset bos.cifs_fs.rte, and optionally bos.cifs_fs.smit for the Smitty interface, from the installation DVD.

To invoke the Smitty interface, run:

root# smitty cifs_fs

The Smitty interface will enable you to do almost anything you need with the CIFS filesystem.

For people aligned the …

Here's a statically compiled version of Sqlite 3.5.6 command line interface on ARMEL with Readline support. It runs nicely on Nokia Internet Tablets with the OS 2008 (libreadline4 must be installed):

sqlite3-armel.gz (download no longer available)

It was compiled with the following settings:

./configure --disable-shared --enable-readline --enable-dynamic-extensions …

This short list should apply to a situation where an organization with one domain and a simple Exchange environment wants to upgrade from Exchange 2003 to 2007. It assumes everything will be installed on a single server with a fresh installation of Windows 2003 R2, joined as a member server …