Tech From the Trenches

This entry isn’t nearly as useful or, well, geeky as my co-bloggers, but I found it to be a useful trick.  I stumbled on a post  that demonstrated how to create invisible spacers for the apple dock.  You can use this spacer to create separation between icons on the dock, allowing you to create groupings. [...]

When we started our journey into server virtualization, we didn’t have a huge budget to work with and honestly we really didn’t even know what we were getting into.  You just don’t know what you don’t know.  But, I am used to learning from experience and I like it that way. Here’s a quick overview [...]

For those that have no idea what ping is, it is a network command run from a DOS/Linux prompt to test to see if a server or address is responding. Example: ping techfromthetrenches.com In DOS the sends out 4 requests and expects 4 requests back.   On linux flavors the requests continue until stopped.  So what [...]