Archive for August 2006

Renaming a user’s profile folder in Windows.

If I want to rename a user from “Mike Diehn” to “mdiehn” Log the user out. Log in as an Administrator, preferably in the realm in which the user account is defined rather than simply in the local computer realm. Manage Local Users and GroupRename the user account, maybe fill in the Full Name and […]

Greyhounds

Are Greyhounds grey? No. Not usually. We adopted two greyhounds. Pope and Bagen. They’re amazingly cool dogs. And I do mean “cool” in the 1980’s sense of the word – just laid back, calm, collected. They remind me of horses they are so cool. But they aren’t grey. Nope. Pope is black, going grey in […]

Exim4 and routing message to /dev/null

Fairly common practice from Sendmail and even Postfix setups is to use an alias in /etc/aliases or some such file to route mail for a certain address to the “bitbucket.” Like this: spamtrap: /dev/null Well, put that into /etc/aliases on a Debian system running Exim4 with a stock config and it won’t work. I learned […]