A few days ago, I prepared a Powerpoint presentation and a demo script for a Webinar. The topic under consideration was Implementing Effective Access Control. The first thing I did was to look for a good definition of “Access Control.” As usual, Wikipedia did the trick, “Access control is the ability to permit or deny…

In case you read my post, Email, the New “Sneakernet”, you might have been left wanting to know more about how to use Samba. There are plenty of sites and books dedicated to the topic, but here’s a quicky post on how to most easily use Samba. To make your Linux, UNIX or Mac files…

As you can read in my “About” page, I’ve been involved with computing for a long time. Although the industry has seen tremendous progress during that time, every once in a while, something comes along that makes me think it is still 1980. In the early days of personal computing (about 25 ago), when IBM…