Welcome
Many people may be put off by the term PEBCAC - Problem Exists Between Computer And Chair. Well...it's usually the truth. Even among IT professionals, most of the problems are human error. The best way to remedy that is through education. The focus of this site is just that. The main area I want to focus on is security. I will focus on home and small office use, but many of the basic principles will apply to enterprise level as well.
All of my pages are W3C compliant. I am hoping people will find this a little cleaner and easier to navigate.
Free Software Alternatives for Windows
Probably the biggest complaint about a PC is that, out of the box, the applications are weak or non-existent. I recently had to redo my machine so I delved into finding as much free software as I could. $300 for Office, $30 for AV, $30 for anti-spyware, $60 for CD/DVD burning, etc. Not to mention the annual subscriptions for updates. I just want to pay for hardware and games (I'm looking into free games). How-to
Webmail
I mainly set this up to learn about email administration. This is about the only way to get experience without it being a part of your job. I feel to be good at security, you need to know a little bit about everything.
If you have an account, click the following link for access: Webmail
You may need to accept a lot of certificate stuff to get in since it is self-signed.
Pebcac Forums
An addition I made in the summer of '05 on a virtual machine and later migrated it to my server after I finished moving (I have already had the privilege of migrating it to another server after the first one died). It was an interesting experience and I have a document on how I set it up: phpBB forum on Windows 2000 Server I can't take all the credit for that as it shows. I used a document created by a couple of other guys and made a fair amount of changes and updates. It was quite a chore because most people setup phpBB on Apache.
Last year I moved from Windows 2000 Server to Linux. This took quite a bit of work but was easier than I thought it would be. The performance is way better along with the stability.
Projects
- F/OSS Gamer Web Site - Site covering free/open source games & some other software
- Disk Maintenance Automation (Windows XP Pro, all Windows 2000, all Windows 2003, untested on other versions)
- Requests? Go to my feedback page.
