Two New Articles added.

To further fuel your techno-lust, I’ve added two new articles in the Technical section. The first is an article on copying your Active Directory data into LDAP in order to make a central point for a unified login.
See it HERE.

And the other article is on how to authenticate OSX against Active Directory without altering your schema, without buying third-party software, or adding a OSX server.
See it HERE.

And remember, all articles are up for discussion in the forums.

Well the new site went up this weekend. I think that I have most of the bugs worked out thus far. I know that the chat and reviews links don’t go anywhere yet and I’m working on the download datebase, too. But if you find anything else please let me know so I can fix it.

• Please post bugs HERE
• If you’d like to see the old site for some reason, I’ve archived it HERE
• Like the new site? Hate it? Let me know. Vote HERE

Well the migration to the new site is going ok. I got alot of the forums imported last night, although most of the posts have dates in May. I’ve got some of the member’s accounts imported, too. If you currently have an account on the old site and can’t login to the new site, send me an email and I’ll get you fixed up first.

I should have most of the old articles ported over to the site by next week. I’ve decided to merge Fat of the LAN and Fat of the LAN Tech back into one site. What can I say, I’m lazy.

WooHoo! I took the 70-220 yesterday and passed it. That’s it! I’m officially a MCSE. I’m so glad to be finished so I can get on with other things like taking more pictures of my wife with my new lenses.

This webserver is now up and running on RedHad Linux. Wow, what a difference in performance! Much faster now. Not the easiest OS to configure, but well worth the time.

WooHoo! I took the 70-219 yesterday and passed it. That officially leaves just 1 more exam until I have my MCSE. On to the 70-220…

I know it seems strange for someone who’s pursuing an MCSE to jump ship from IIS and load Apache webserver, but hey, I’m realistic. I’m tired of loading service pack after service pack just to keep the latest worm or exploit at bay. And I’m really tired of patching files to make them run under IIS when they run under everything else just fine. So, there you go, sorry Bill. This also means that I’ll be putting more how to’s up soon. It shouldn’t take to long to put them together, I should have more time now that I’m not patching IIS ; )

WooHoo! I took the 70-217 yesterday and passed it. That officially leaves just 2 more exams until I have my MCSE. On to the 70-219…

The Fat of the LAN web server was upgraded from a Pentium II 400 with 294 MB’s of RAM, to a 2 Gigahertz Celeron with 512 MB’s of RAM. The new system rejected my RAID card like a new kidney so it’s now handled by the OS. It also got a OS upgrade and all of the latest security patches. Overall, it’s a lot quicker.

For those of you who are interested in IDS, I’ve added Snort support to the site including downloads, links, thread in the forums, and a How-To article for installing Snort.