Preparing a CD that displays proper file names whether it is mounted on a Unix system or on a Windows box requires little more than the proper set of arguments to the mkisofs command and software that ...

Maybe you're married to Microsoft Exchange, but you secretly pine for open-source e-mail tools like SpamAssassin or fetchmail. Or maybe you're using Unix-based applications for some network services, ...

One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...

When transferring text files between Linux/Unix and Windows systems, you may encounter issues with line breaks and file formatting. This is because Windows uses both a line feed (LF) and a carriage ...

The Kerberos authentication method originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s, as part of a project called Athena. The project involved integrating the computers on the MIT ...

Do any of these situations describe your company? * You have a heterogeneous computing environment that includes a mix of Windows, Unix and Linux systems. * Because of disparate platforms, you are ...

You’ve got a smooth running Windows network. Now some exec decides that a Unix/Linux application has to be brought in as a business-critical platform. Not that they know it’s a Unix/Linux app, just ...