Homegroups and libraries on windows 7

Posted on by David Vassallo

One of the "newer" concepts of Windows 7 is the idea of Libraries and Homegroups. Libraries are nothing more than a collection of shortcuts that point to other folders present on your harddisk. The idea being that you can group these files and folders more conveniently in these libraries. Windows comes shipped with 4 default … Continue reading Homegroups and libraries on windows 7

Checking the file system of a linux box

Posted on by David Vassallo

I had to run a test for a client before one of our Aventail boxes was sent out. Their main concern was the hard-disk and filesystem stability since they had some issue previously. The SonicWALL Aventail boxes are basically heavily-customised Debian machines. Here's how I went about testing the filesystem: telinit 1  # this tells … Continue reading Checking the file system of a linux box