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...old server has been retired, I could take advantage of Samba's netbios aliases feature. I aliases the new server with the old server's name. Windows Explorer now shows two servers in network. And, problem solved. Chuckle. The customer should upgrade anyway, as M$ is playing such hardball that who knows what else will stop working in the future. -T -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

...Samba's > > netbios aliases > > feature. I aliases the new server with the old > server's name. Windows Explorer now shows two servers > in network. > > And, problem solved. Chuckle. > > The customer should upgrade anyway, as M$ is playing such > hardball that who knows what else will stop working in the > future. > > -T > I can sort of understand why the UPS support team didn't want to help. If something went wrong, your customer might try and blame them. There is also the point, every time you fix something like this, it defers...

It has just come to my notice that Redhat is planning to ship a forked version of OpenSSH. The change goes beyond the usual patches applied to RPMs in the build process: Redhat have built their own OpenSSH tarball and are using that in their source RPM instead of the official release distribution. If you are interested, have a look at the openssh-3.9p1-7.src.rpm from the Fedora development/

Gentlefolk, I have been thinking on Markdown's lack of "proper" table support for a long while now. Here's where I have arrived... ## I Don't Like HTML Tables It is often argued that embedded HTML is the way to markdown rich tables. Unfortunately, this contradicts the higher markdown ideal that a raw markdown document (including tables!) should be good 1. Firstly for