I recently installed Solaris 10 06/06 x86 on my desktop machine, a Compaq Evo with an onboard Intel 10/100 network card.
At first the Solaris installation seemed to hang while trying to find a network configuration from a nonexistent RPC boot server. In retrospect, I think the problem was that Solaris didn't find an appropriate driver for the card but after waiting a long time, the installation continued skipping the network configuration.
If you've ever tried to use CFEngine for package management, you know that it is basically useless.
Someone recently asked me how to setup redundant power for a rack of machines without relying on all the equipment to have dual power supplies.
Here is a quick howto on installing and setting up PPTP on Ubuntu. Specifically I'll be attempting to configure this machine to use the Israeli ISP 012 over a cable modem. 012 provides some sort of installation package for Linux but it doesn't support Ubuntu.
I recently started using Symantec's Backup Exec for Windows to backup files from a Samba share. I joined the Samba machine to the domain and gave the backup user permissions to the share but the backup kept getting access denied errors.