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So the Kids got a bunch of computer games for their PC over the holiday and over and over with the ones they got I keep running into the same stupid issue. You have to have Administrative privileges for the games to run properly! What the heck is the point of having a limited user account for the kids so they can’t wreck the PC if they can’t play any of their games on it. *sighs*

If anyone knows a way to have the runas command auto input the password when you run it I’d love to know. Not to mention the freaking games don’t even have an option to install for all users either. Grrrrr…. thanks Infogrames, I hate you.

I got really bored today and decided I was going to take an old Pentium 3 I had laying around and build out an Ubuntu Server box to run DNS, DHCP and a few other little functions on my home LAN. So far so good. I got DNS going and functioning as it should for all the boxes on my network, and I got around to setting up Samba so I can use that extra 40GB of free space on the box for something. What? I’m still not sure yet, but I’ll figure it out.

The box is now headless and KB/Mouseless and sits behind my desk to be fully controlled via Putty on my Windows box. Over time I’m sure I’ll find more uses for my little box, but in the meantime we’ll see how she does at her first couple of tasks.