Simplicity in consulting at Tech Intelligence

Years ago when I was still young, I received a request for help concerning the implementation of internal e-mail, webpages and backup. The environment was a school, running a windows NT server and windows desktops for the children. Several options passed my mind, but it dawned to me pretty quickly that I needed a solution that would integrate seamlessly with the current environment. So I went into detail. By that time, I [...] Read More


Tech Intelligence - Introduction at Tech Intelligence

For those of you who've never heard of me, this is a little introduction. Nice to meet you. My name is Servaas Schrama, I am a dutch IT Consultant running my own little company. My specialisation is around Linux, unix, MacOSX and web development. I started blogging about 2,5 uears ago, and started blogging about webbased software and Web 2.0 in may last year here. You can read all about me [...] Read More


How to deal with difficult customers at Tech Intelligence

Typically, customers are non-technical people. That often results in frustration, as non-technical people tend to believe that technical people know everything there is to know and they are a specialist in every field. For them, if you can work on a website, you can also fix their MS Windows problem and so on. This is not reality. So what do you do when the customer asks if you can look [...] Read More


Schedule A Unix Cron Job at HackITLinux

When scheduling a cron job each column indicates a different time period: minute hour [Day of Month] [Month] [Day of Week] Thus, to schedule a job to run at 5 minutes after every hour: 5 * * * * /job every five minutes: 0-59/5 * * * * /job some versions of cron allow the abbreviation: */5 * * * * /job every hour on the hour: 0 * * * [...] Read More


HP digs further into consulting at The CIO Weblog

HP has been moving fast and strong into services and have continued the trend with today's acquisition of EYP Mission Critical Facilities, a consulting firm specializing in large data center design and operations support. Coming on the heels of last month's expansion of their SaaS offerings, one imagines that before long you will simply be able to turn your keys over to HP and take off on a long vacation [...] Read More