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Sorry for the outages…

  • April 30th, 2010
  • Posted in Uncategorized

The server that hosts this site had “issues”…  My ISP wound up moving all my stuff to another one.  That, of course, had its own “issues”… So anyway, things seem more stable now, and hopefully no content was lost. Please email me at the usual address (or use the handy “Email Greg Porter” tab on the upper [ READ MORE ]

Vista bad. Windows 7 good.

  • February 21st, 2009
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I (Greg Porter) recently dumped XP as my home machine operating system.  The main reason I had XP was to play games, and now that new games require DirectX 10, which requires Vista, I said goodbye. So I went with Debian. [ READ MORE ]

I Haven’t Died….

  • August 17th, 2008
  • Posted in Uncategorized

Or anything… It’s just been busy, really busy at work. But we have gotten: Fedora 7 and CentOS 5 to authenticate against Active Directory A CentOS 5 linux server to serve up home directories (including roving profiles) to Linux, Unix, and Windows clients with AD Kerberos Sun Ray Server Software (running Sun Ray thin clients) on [ READ MORE ]

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