I’m spending most of this week at Microsoft’s Tech Ed 2011 conference, dosing up on all sorts of information on Windows, Azure, Windows Phone 7 and other Redmond tech. One of the overriding themes at this year’s event is something that pops up more and more these days in work environments: private cloud. More »
Home servers are functional but often ugly. If you want to keep your network-driving home PC out of sight, consider concealing it in a shoe cabinet. More »
Dear Lifehacker, I’m starting a new job as a systems administrator in a few weeks. I have a few years’ experience managing a help desk, supporting between 300-400 users, and doing some Windows admin with a few servers (<10 most of the time), including SQL backups and basic maintenance. My new role is focused on the server/infrastructure rather than the help desk, performing many of the server duties I’m familiar with, however I am going to be a bit in the “deep-end” because I won’t have any mentors in the new role, and my new boss is a project manager without a lot of experience on the technical side. More »
Ad-blocking extensions are great for individual browsers but leave out other devices and applications. Set up a router-level filter to block ads for every device on your home network. More »
Pogoplugs are great little storage devices, but they can do more than they let on. Let’s take a look at how you can hack a Pogoplug into a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) web server. More »
There are many clever ways to use Dropbox like we covered in yesterday’s feature. One thing we didn’t talk about was how to use Dropbox to host your website for free, something that reader tehdavid sent in. More »
