Originally Posted 11/20/2000. Ironically a lot of this is still useful.   Home Networking                 In the day and age of Multi-computer families, a frequent argument is, who gets to be online? The answer is simple, Modem Sharing or networking. Modem Sharing can be done one of several ways, using a regular Analog Modem [...]

How To: Reset Admin/Root Password Anyone who has been in the IT business for any length of time knows literally hundreds of passwords. As we get older though it becomes harder and harder to remember each password and continue with safe security practices. Many companies have gone to centralized password systems. But such software is [...]

Boot up time This one is not really fair to tell the truth. Pleanty of operating systems have a much longer boot time, but that’s to be expected when a hardware check it ran on every component and the machine’s uptime is measured in years. It’s really born more out of my frustration at actually [...]