If you live in Sydney Australia, are a tertiary student and need a good reason to avoid school on Tuesday the 2nd of September, then come to TechEd Australia Student Day. It’s just like watching a movie in the cinemas except there’s no explosions or romance and the audience is full of geeks. The event is not yet rated. Understandably all uni students are broke so Microsoft is not only hosting a free half-day event from 1-4pm packed with XNA game development, robotics, web ...
The /sbin/init process uses an entry in /etc/inittab for your system’s default run level to run scripts that start various services at boot time. You can manually customize the run levels at which various services start, but this is tedious at best. As you might expect, the Ubuntu repositories provide a number of applications that simplify editing the startup and shutdown scripts associated with different run levels. Ubuntu comes with an application(System -> Administration -> Services) that promises to provide coarse control over ...
The full sendmail distribution consists of three RPM packages: sendmail, sendmail-cf, and sendmail-doc. Only the first package is truly necessary to send and receive mail on your machine. The second package includes configuration macros and other files that can help you reconfigure your site's sendmail installation if the defaults are insufficient. The third package contains documentation files that help to explain some of the details of the current version.The sendmail binary packages are included in the Red Hat distribution. The sendmail package ...
Last week was an exciting week for Windows and blogging. Senior Vice Presidents Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan launched a brand new blog called Engineering Windows 7 (or E7 for short). In case you don't know who these guys are, Jon DeVaan manages the engineering team responsible for creating the central (or "core") components and architecture of Windows and Steven Sinofsky manages the group responsible for the user experiences in both Windows and Windows Live. The Engineering Windows 7 blog is designed to create ...
To install the packages required to run and monitor a Samba server on your Ubuntu system, start the Synaptic Package Manager from the System -> Administration menu, and click Search to display the search dialog. Make sure that Names and Descriptions are the selected items to look in, enter samba as the string to search for, and click Search. After the search completes, scroll down until you see the samba-common and samba-server packages, right-click each of these packages and select Mark for Installation from ...