I’ve been looking a lot at the Asus EEE and I’m quite convinced that I will get myself one for Christmas this year. It is really small enough to carry around everywhere and since it is based on x86 you can basically run any operating system you like on it. If you use google a […]
Linuxhaxor has a list of some very basic security tips for Linux but they are mostly applicable to all platforms. They are indeed basic but I’ve seen many places where people do not care about these.
I’m a true believer in checklists for everything. I use the Getting Things Done framework both in my professional and personal life. But I’m not going to talk about that kind of checklists.
Most sysadmins I know use checklists for their daily work, especially if there is critical work to be done. In particular for systems […]
Glenn Brunnette is announcing that Sun together with Center for Internet Security has published new security guidelines for Solaris 10 11/06 and 08/07. Read the whole story on Glenn’s blog or go directly to the documents.
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If you work as a sysadmin you are most likely using a Windows or *NIX machine as your workstation. I feel sorry for those of you who has to use Windows, *NIX people are slightly better off. However, in my opinion the perfect system administrator workstation is Mac OS X. Why you may ask?
Virtualization has been a hot topic for quite some time. If you are using Solaris and Sun hardware you have had a number of options for many years already and the last few years there has been even more options made available. Today you have four different virtualization alternatives when you want to run Solaris […]
