Integrating Unix into Active Directory while maintaining UNIX style security

As technology grows IT Administrators are faced with challenges of managing a heterogeneous environment mixed with different operating platforms; Windows, Linux, Apple, etc... especially in business where majority of the infrastructure is Windows...

The C Programming Language - Brief History

The C Programming Language - Brief History. C is a programming language which born at “AT & T’s Bell Laboratories” of USA in 1972. It was written by Dennis Ritchie. This language was created for a specific purpose: to design the UNIX operating system (which is used on many computers). From the beginning, C was intended to be useful--to allow busy programmers to get things done. Because C is such a powerful, dominant and supple language, its use quickly spread beyond Bell Labs.

Types of Computer Operating Systems

Where do I start? My first computer was given by my uncle. I don’t think it had an operating system because it didn’t even have a hard disk. It had two huge and distinctive 5.25” floppy disk drives....

Using Active Directory groups to control access to Linux services

Recently I published an article on how to Integrate Unix into Active Directory while maintaining UNIX style security using Samba and OpenLDAP outlining the configuration setting up OpenLDAP to do ID mapping between Unix and Active Directory as well...

How to not suck at unix

 This quick guide is intended for the beginning Unix or Linux user.  This is typicaly a Computer Operator at a business or maybe a student.  This isn't a tutorial, you should probably have a book if you...

Getting That First Oracle DBA Job

The Overshadowed Life Lost in the Technology Field in 2011

EVeryone knows about the great loss society suffered when Steve Jobs passed away after a long illness. Very few people know much about about a similar loss in the technology world, that of the passing of Dennis Ritchie. His contributions to computer science are used in almost everything we do today!!

HP-UX Certification - How to Guide

HP-UX (Hewlett Packard UniX) is Hewlett-Packard's proprietary implementation of the UNIX operating system. HP-UX was the first Unix to offer access control lists for file access permissions as an alternative to the standard Unix permissions system.

Alternative Browsers List

List Of Alternative Web Browsers For Linux, Mac, Mobile Devices and Windows. While the list is not comprehensive. It gives it a good go!

Vi Unix Editor – How to use Vi Editor and Common Problems – CLI Putty Errors and Terminal Type

The Vi Unix Editor is the standard UNIX command line editor and if you’re planning on doing some configuring of a Unix Server you will definitely need to use the VI editor especially when you’re running a Command Line only operating system. ...