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Alternatives to the void left by avoiding the “News”
Recently I have been reading "The 4-Hour Work Week". Until I read it, I had made a habit of reading the news: au.news.yahoo.com, maitlandmercury.com.au, news.com.au, ninemsn.com.au, abc.net.au/news and sbs.com.au. With the exception of ABC and SBS which tend to...
Techniques for Fixing Bad Habits and Reducing Information Overload
Some recent reading I have found interesting. Techniques for Fixing Bad Habits Why do we seem to find our selves repeating behaviour we have made a mental note to avoid? Habits both good and bad shape our lives. Here is how to identify and modify our...
getent passwd username on winbind enabled CentOS returns nothing
Problem: Added a CentOS 6.5 server to a Windows SBS 2011 domain. And discovered that I got an empty reply when running: # where jamesmcd is your Windows domain username getent passwd jamesmcd If this is the case you will not be able to use your domain account and...
kinit: Cannot find KDC for requested realm while getting initial credentials
kinit [email protected] kinit: Cannot find KDC for requested realm while getting initial credentials Changed these [libdefaults] default_realm = DOMAIN.LOCAL dns_lookup_realm = true dns_lookup_kdc = true probably best to use authconfig-tui to modify Kerberos...
Systems Integration – Why and How
Imagine some typical manual business processes: You have been running a business for a few years and every morning a fax arrives from a customer. You take that fax and then sit in front a of a computer to key the order into your system. One day you deliver too much...
One of Australias biggest Supermarket Chains — Woolworths is on Gmail
Just discovered one of the biggest supermarket chains in Australia - Woolworths, are using Google Mail now. [user@mypc01 ~]$ dig -t mx woolworths.com.au ; <<>> DiG 9.9.3-rl.13207.22-P2-RedHat-9.9.3-5.P2.fc19 <<>> -t mx woolworths.com .au ... ;;...