Sometimes I have to find out more about a domain and its owner or company. This is for instance part of my research when I’m evaluating websites and also helpful to identify the owner of a website that is scraping my articles without attribution or permission. Some of the information that I look-up as part [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I have a lot of domains. Well, a lot is relative but it is enough to lose the overview occasionally. While the majority is hosted at one popular provider (Godaddy), some are hosted at other domain registrars and web hosting companies. I get regular automated emails from those companies. They tell me that a domain [...]

Categories: Security, Web Development

The task of joining Linux to a Windows domain can be a challenge. I have covered it before here (see my article “Join a Ubuntu machine to a Windows domain“), but many users have had issues with Likewise Open either not being able to join or not being able to reliably remain joined. Naturally, if [...]

Categories: Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic, Windows

Next to the xorg.conf file (read my Get To Know Linux: Understanding xorg.conf for more) the smb.conf file might be the most misunderstood of all files. Part of the reason for this is because the default file is, well, rather large and confusing. When you compare what you need vs what you have (in the [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

I would like to write a short review about a cool domain suggestion tool that I discovered lately. Bust a Name is not your usual domain search engine, it is highly flexible and has a speedy nice interface. You start your domain search by typing in at least one word that should be part of [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web