Archive for October, 2008

Common RAID Levels

So you’re a home user , your not an engineer , your not an admin but you’re a computer enthusiast , you wouldn’t have a clue what RAID 5 Parity is , but you know what an IDE device is.  As an enthusiast your computer is a massive part of your life. You keep everything on there.  Your photos, your videos, your emails , your porn …. All the important stuff, but as any computer enthusiast, engineer, admin, tech will know …  Hard drives just don’t last.   Iv had hard drives only 3 months old die on me, yea sure I can get it back on warrantee, but who cares? IV LOST ALL MY DATA ! , I couldn’t care less about the price of the hard drive, it’s my gigs and gigs of photos and music iv lost that’s got me tearing my hair out. Continue reading “Common RAID Levels” »

How To Conceal Your Pr0n In a JPG

So your sick of your Girlfriend / Mum / Dad / Brother / Gay mates stumbling across your pr0n right ?  Here’s a little tip that will help solve that problem for good. Continue reading “How To Conceal Your Pr0n In a JPG” »

Introduction To Powershell (Move Over Bash)

For years UNIX/Linux administrators have looked down on the windows environment,one of the main reasons being that windows did not have a nice CLI. UNIX has always had sh, bash, ksh which are great shells. Microsoft has now introduced Windows PowerShell (Codename MONAD) a very powerful .NET based shell. A shell is a great tool for system administrators to automate tasks. Continue reading “Introduction To Powershell (Move Over Bash)” »

SMF Dynamic Meta Tags

So you need Dynamic Meta Description and Keywords In Your SMF Forum? Hoping To Boost Your Google Ranks? Here’s How. Continue reading “SMF Dynamic Meta Tags” »