For Ubuntu Server amateurs, Webmin is a web management application that can greatly simplify administration tasks. Below is a step-by-step guide to installing this handy tool. 1. From your command prompt, edit the APT sources.list file: sudo pico /etc/apt/sources.list 2. In the editor, add the Webmin source and save the file: deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge [...]
I have been extremely impressed with the functionality of Google Voice. For those of you not familiar, Google Voice is simply a free internet phone service. You receive your own phone number, voice mail box and a myriad of features that are both powerful and super cool. There is one caveat, however; you need to [...]
This is a step by step explanation of what I have done to setup Windows Deployment Services(WDS) in my work environment. I have generalized a few steps to make it generic enough to work in any environment with a few tweaks here and there. In this post, I assume you have Active Directory and a [...]
The final step in getting XP Mode working is to configure your applications in the Windows XP virtual machine that was installed in the previous post. I will refer to the process we will be using as publishing because technically, we are publishing the application to Windows 7 via Windows XP. The cool thing about [...]
Now that you have prepared your PC for XP mode, it is time to install it. There are two pieces of software you will need to download first: Windows Virtual PC Beta - This is the virtualization software that is going to contain the Windows XP virtual machine that powers XP Mode. Windows XP Mode Beta [...]