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	<title>AspiringSysadmin.com</title>
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	<description>How to build an infrastructure based on UNIX</description>
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		<title>Asus EEE - the perfect Christmas gift</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been looking a lot at the Asus EEE and I&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aspiringsysadmin.com/blog/2007/11/23/asus-eee-the-perfect-christmas-gift/</link>
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		<title>Basic Security Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;ve seen many places where people do not care about these.
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		<link>http://aspiringsysadmin.com/blog/2007/11/22/basic-security-tips/</link>
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		<title>Are You Creating Checklists?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a true believer in checklists for everything. I use the Getting Things Done framework both in my professional and personal life. But I&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aspiringsysadmin.com/blog/2007/11/21/are-you-creating-checklists/</link>
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		<title>Security Guidelines for Solaris 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s blog or go directly to the documents.
Read here for more security related material on this blog.
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		<link>http://aspiringsysadmin.com/blog/2007/11/10/security-guidelines-for-solaris-10/</link>
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		<title>Mac OS X - the perfect sysadmin workstation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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?
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		<link>http://aspiringsysadmin.com/blog/2007/11/08/mac-os-x-the-perfect-sysadmin-workstation/</link>
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		<title>Virtualization options in Solaris running on Sun hardware</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aspiringsysadmin.com/blog/2007/11/07/virtualization-options-in-solaris-running-on-sun-hardware/</link>
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		<title>Consistent MySQL backups using ZFS snapshots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It should come as no surprise to readers of this blog that I really like ZFS. Personally I think it is one of the biggest developments in file system design in many many years. One place where I&#8217;ve started to use it recently on my own home server is to make instant and consistent backups [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aspiringsysadmin.com/blog/2007/08/13/consistent-mysql-backups-using-zfs-snapshots/</link>
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		<title>Use pfiles to peek into your application</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever asked yourself what files a specific application is accessing at the moment? If the answer is yes and you are running Solaris then pfiles(1) is the answer. 
First you need to find the PID of the application that you are interested in. In this example will we look at syslog.

# ps -ef [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aspiringsysadmin.com/blog/2007/08/01/use-pfiles-to-peek-into-your-application/</link>
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		<title>Sysadmin Related Links</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few sysadmin related links:

There is a new Ruby and sysadmin related book available, Practical Ruby for System Administration. The last few years Ruby has really sailed up as a good alternative to Perl and Python. Personally I must say I prefer Python over Perl but with all the hype around Ruby I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aspiringsysadmin.com/blog/2007/07/19/sysadmin-related-links/</link>
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		<title>Clone your ZFS root file system with one easy command</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In their latest release Nexenta added support for ZFS boot. I also wrote an article about how to clone and boot another ZFS file system. The process is quite simple but it still contains a number of steps.
To make things even easier I decided to write a script to automate the process. This can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aspiringsysadmin.com/blog/2007/07/17/clone-your-zfs-root-file-system-with-one-easy-command/</link>
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