Archive for the 'Off Topic' Category

Out with the old and in with the new…

My old desktop died a few days ago.  I had known over the last few days it was on it’s way out.  I was getting HDD, CD/DVD, RAM and CPU errors.  I’m pretty sure the motherboard was dieing.  I thought the RAM upgrade and a clean upgrade to Vista would make it better.  All was [...]

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 [...]

SecurityTube.net - YouTube for security geeks.

Not sure if this has made it on anyone’s radar yet but if your into YouTube and also computer security check out SecurityTube.  Not a great collection of video’s but some interesting stuff.  I thought I would share it with my readers.  Please post a comment if you find anything good.
Here is one of the [...]

At one time it was possible to “shutdown the Internet”

I saw another post about the “NeXTCube that Tim Berners-Lee ran the first-ever Web server on.”  Not sure why but Tim Berners has been getting a lot of press time recently.
This is a picture of the worlds first web server.  I think we have added a few more web servers to the Internet since 1989.
What [...]

Log management is a pain

Monday night in one of my intro security classes I had part of my lecture cover logging.  I asked the class if anyone had experience with logs or managed them in a production environment.  One student said that it took up to much disk space to capture everything and who has time to go blind [...]