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 […]
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 […]
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?
rsync is one of those tools that you find new uses for every day. It is really just a fancy file mover but it has an amazing feature set. Among other things You can control bandwidth usage, resume operations, copy files over ssh and include and exclude files as you like.
In The Practice of System […]
To my delight I saw that Practice of System and Network Administration, The (2nd Edition) is available for pre-order on Amazon. I already own the 1st Edition and it is really a great book. I consider it a must read for any sysadmin or I could even go that far that I would most […]
When a user reports a problem with a server which is your responsibility there are a few checks you should always do. One thing that has complicated this on a Solaris 10 system is zones. It is possible that the zone you are working in is not the cause of the problem but you could […]
