Pragmatic IT

The Canadian Internet Registration Association ( CIRA ) sent me an e-mail telling me that they were changing the "whois" data so ...

...or... The end of the... or whatever. Here you can read about Microsoft explaining their Health Vault product (sorry, I think you might n...

I got a message "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space" while updating Ruby Gems in Net...

I couldn't get MySQL Administrator on a Windows XP desktop to connect to a MySQL instance I had running on an Ubuntu 6.06 server that I...

I love the topic of backups. I say that because it's IT's dirty secret. No one should keep data in one place only, yet it's ver...

This is another late posting of some notes when I built some new infrastructure servers on VMs to replace my aging PowerPC Macs that ran my ...

Months ago I built a DHCP/DNS server from scratch. Most of these notes I made at the time I was building it, meaning to fix them up within a...