Archive for July, 2008

Joined Plurk yesterday…

I setup a Plurk account yesterday and first impressions are good.  I have had a Twitter account for a while but I wanted to check out Plurk.  I have been seeing it a lot in the Blogshere and decided to investigate.  It’s another microblogger like Twitter but with a different UI.  I use microblogger to [...]

Do SysAdmin’s need to program?

YES!
I get asked this question a lot by people wanting to get into System Administration and those currently at the Junior levels.  My usual answer is “YES!”  If you like manually building user accounts, testing new servers, writing reports, going blind reading log files, and all the other really exciting stuff System Administrators do I [...]

Disk encryption isn’t just for business.

Last weekend my brother-in-law was asking about a way to protect personal data on his computer.  I thought he was talking about Quicken and TurboTax.  Actually he was talking about personal content not personal information.  Things like family photo’s he had scanned, home movies, and other media content.
He had recently bought a WD My Book [...]

Linux Command: chattr

I had a student ask if there was a way to protect files from being deleted by root.  The scenario I was told is that they have a Linux server and share SUDO access with several administrators.  The problem is that sometimes files are getting clobbered when other admins are running installs, updates or try [...]

New Theme

I have been busy the last couple weeks so its been hard to find time to post.  I had to drop my old theme because I was getting emails about it not working as it should some times.  So I have a generic template for now.  I removed a bunch of pluggins that either I [...]