When teaching, or consulting, I have found it helpful
to some times make a short video to leave behind showing
what may need to be remembered from my session. This page
will allow you to download some of these videos.
Linux
There is nothing harder to do than learn vi if
all you have ever used is a GUI type editor.
A problem arises when you try to set up a Linux
Server without a GUI. The only editor that is
always installed is vi. This is a great editor
to know if you are working on a Linux/Unix system.
This video will introduce you to the editor.
Almost all the distributions of Linux will
set the colors for the command window. The
problem is that some of these colors do not
work as good if the console background is a
certain color. This video will show how to
change these colors.
It is very common to add a user to any system.
This video shows how to add users to the system
using the command line tools.
CUPS is one of the best tools that have been
added to Linux. It allows someone to configure
a printer very easy in the Linux environment.
It is a Web based tool that is a must for all
system administrators who have to add a printer
to a system.
Networking
This video will show a simple way to calculate all the required network addresses for a network.
This video is a simple subnetting example.
Test Driven Development
This video will introduce NUnit and to use
NUnit as part of a Test Driven Development
environment. This video includes a short
example that encompasses the information
presented chapters 2 and 3 of Test-Driven
Development in Microsoft .NET.
Virtual Box
This video shows how to add a disk to a virtual machine.
Being able to add disk space to a virtual machine allows
the virtual machine to have increased storage ability.
This video shows how to create a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox.
This video will show how to install an Ubuntu server
into a virtual machine in VirtualBox.