My base installation came with evolution, but I had to add an extra package from the standard repository which also installed a few dependencies. … Once this is installed, the option, “Exchange-mapi” will show up as the type of connection when you first launch Evolution.

This lets you access your Linux home directory and local DVD drive from Windows without having to set up additional cifs/nfs mounts. My home directory is an NFS mount from another server, so you should be able to access *any* file system that is available on your Linux side.

Run Wubi, give it a password, and click “install”. The installation process from is fully automatic from here. The rest of the installation files will be downloaded and confirmed, after which you’ll get the standard windows wants to reboot. Do so and select Ubuntu at the boot screen. The installation will continue for another few minutes depending on how old your machine is and will reboot once again. Choose Ubuntu at the boot screen again and enjoy.

First it was the three red rings of death. I had to wait forever for them to ship my console back to me! And now my Xbox 360 console won’t play games anymore from disc. Fallout, Crackdown, Orange Box, and COD world at war, I tried them all and none of them will play. I can get on Xbox live and play Castle Crashers just fine, but any attempt to play a game from CD and it acts like the disc is all scratched up.

How do you put pictures in your Outlook email signature so that everyone you send email to gets a little picture, and when they click on it, it sends them to a special website of your choosing? Well mom, that’s easy! Here’s how. But keep in mind, your screens may look a little different than mine, but it’s the same general get-r-dun process even if you’re using an older version of Outlook or Windows. I’m on 2008 server, so your mileage may vary.

I really like this tool, redirect the output to a file and it should dump the whole tree in seconds. All I was really interested in was the dn, cn, mail, and displayName, but I found I was able to see much more.

Find computers and their description from the AD, Use LDP to search for tombstoned objects in AD, Show all replicated attributes in the AD Schema, Show an AD schema attribute, Find a list of CNs in the directory and return their homeDirectory, Identify the DN of an Active Directory group, Query a user from AD using WMI, etc.

There’s a .dll in the Windows 2k3 Resource Kit named “Acctinfo.dll” that’s not registered by default. If you copy this .dll to a machine where you browse AD with Active Directory Users and Computers snapin, and register it, you’ll start seeing several additional attributes that were not queried before like password expiration date, SID, GUID, etc.

Your first Linux command on a dual boot system should be: dd if=/dev/zero of=`fdisk -l | grep -m1 NTFS | awk ‘{print $1}’`

With one exception, that is: Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It’s a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks. These are not old-fashioned, cast-iron Soviet tanks; these are more like the M1 tanks of the U.S. Army, made of space-age materials and jammed with sophisticated technology from one end to the other.