Although there are now fewer and fewer reasons to use Windows for classic application programs, the Redmond operating system is unfortunately still needed, especially for supposed "enterprise software".

The installation of the operating system is quickly done thanks to virt-install or virt-manager. For screen …

When using Ansible under WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) recently, I stumbled upon the following error:

1Failed to create temporary directory.
2In some cases, you may have been able to authenticate and did not have permissions on the target directory. Consider changing the remote tmp path in ansible.cfg to a path …

If you forget the root password (or a user password) of your WSL installation (Windows Subsystem for Linux), using the registry might help you. Because WSL is rather a lightweight kernel expansion than a full-featured VM, the typical live-CD trick (mounting the filesystem and running chroot) won't help.

Below the path …

The last couple of days I have been working on a new project I want to introduce: IcingaBusylightAgent.

It all began with a new telephony system in our office. Instead of using physical phones, my colleagues are now using softphones. In addition to this, a gadget called Busylight representing the instant messenger …

After a couple of months or years plenty of storage is wasted on Windows systems and sometime it is not possible anymore to free space by using the well-known procedures. Recently I had this issue on a 5 year old system - the following steps did not help anymore:

• Executuing the Disk Cleanup utility
• Manual cleaning …

Especially in Microsoft-embossed environments it might be needed to send and receiver mails over Exchange. Some graphical mail clients like Evolution are offering support for this - of course this is not a good solution for servers without graphical user interfaces.

DavMail is a Java-based platform-independent software …