To me this is one of the most annoying things manufacturers decide on when releasing their products – not including all the cables necessary to use the product!

Various USB printers have done this for quite a while, you have to buy the cable separately. Whilst it's sometimes understandable with cheap …

As much as people might dislike Vista, it's the operating system bundled with new machines and it's here to stay. It's been around 2 years since Vista was launched, whilst I can understand certain software developers might not offer support from the immediate release – it should be one of their …

Ever since we've had websites available over HTTPS (HTTP over SSL), there has always been the problem that the host always requires an IP per site as each site needs a new certificate. With SSL the server couldn't just switch certificate according to the site, as SSL is negotiated before …

The Hetzner DS-8000 servers feature a 3ware RAID card (8006-2LP) for hardware RAID 1, a nice feature – although the default CentOS setup is slightly broken with SELinux. After several hours of wondering why smartd wouldn't work, /var/log/audit/audit.log reveals the following:

type=AVC msg=audit(1223922183.059 …

One great thing we see with Linux is that it's used for servers quite frequently, it's probably one of the strongest points about it. A strong and stable server platform which many companies rely on to run many parts of their infrastructure for an organisation.

A common situation we'll see …