My name is Rich Jerrido and I am the person behind www.outsidaz.org I am a geek hailing from the city of brotherly love. I started this blog a couple of years back as a dumping place for a lot of working knowledge of mine that I could have available online regardless of where I was. Over time it has evolved into being a full-fledged blog, complete with RSS feeds, comments, and pictures.When I am not hacking on computers for profit, I hack on them for fun.Read more about me »
They say that necessity is the mother of all invention. I would like to go on record as saying that if that is true, then laziness must be his father. Frequently, I have a requirement to spin up a machine or two (or a hundred) in “the cloud” to play around with, test something out, [...]
This past weekend, I decided to take the plunge and try out XBox Media Center on Fedora 11 on my second Home Theater PC (HTPC). After some minor configuration issues and a hardware swap to replace a ATI Radeon 3650HD with an Nvidia Geforce 6600LE, and pulling down the RPMs from the FedoraJunkies repo, I [...]
This article covers the integration of RHEL5 Systems to a Windows Active Directory environment using samba & winbind. This example uses a Windows Server 2003 R2 domain controller, which has a RFC 2307 compliant schema, so UNIX attributes are stored as properties of the Active DIrectory User account. Winbind, in its default configuration stores the [...]
What’s a *nix admin to do when they are work in a heterogenous environment? Make it like home. On my desk, I have two systems, my company issued and managed laptop, and my Debian Linux admin workstation. Its a pain to use my Windows laptop as it doesn’t have the usual amenities of a *nix, [...]
I needed to join my Ubuntu Feisty workstation to my Active Directory domain so that I could use my domain account credentials to login. After finding many other guides that were either outdated and/or incorrect, I decided to pull the best from each into a working configuration. Below are the steps that I used to [...]
