SMTPstoat – Open Source command line SMTP mailer
SMTPstoat is a command line SMTP mailer application that sends out e-mails according to various specifications. There are plenty of apps that include the name ‘weasel’ and ‘ferret’, so I…
Linux / Open Source
FileSplit – Open Source command line file splitter
Filesplit is a command line application that splits a file into chunks of whatever size you specify. It can also merge the chunks back into a single file again. I…
Setting up quotas for users/groups on a Linux server
v1.0, Jan 21, 2007 This document provides ‘step-by-step’ instructions for setting up quotas on Linux — which allows you to limit disk space to users and/or groups. This document assumes…
Setting up a CVS server on Linux, accessing via Windows over SSH
v1.0, May 13, 2004 Chris Pike – www.drydeadfish.co.uk [icon name=”icon-download” size=2x] cvs-wincvs-ssh.pdf– Download this document in PDF format [109.4k] This document provides ‘step-by-step’ instructions for setting up a Concurrent Versions…
Microsoft, both follower and leader
Things have changed a great deal for Microsoft over the past few years — due to various circumstances — and the company is now focusing on a wide variety of…
Microsoft admits power of bundling
Back in 2003, when the EU questioned Microsoft’s bundling of Windows Media Player (WMP), Microsoft claimed that competing products could easily be downloaded, so why was it so unfair to…
WinFS is not a file system!
Innovation? Since Microsoft has drawn attention to the existence of WinFS, there have been many articles stating how this new ‘file system’ is much better than the current FAT and…
Trustworthy Computing in 2002
2002 was the year that Linux made big news, and Microsoft admitted that Linux was its greatest threat. Microsoft’s continued attempts at spreading Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) in an…