Ironman Louisville Race Report 2012
Author’s Note: I’ve never published a Race Report publicly before. I’m doing it now for two main reasons: 1) I searched for and read as many of these as I could get my hands on leading up to race...
View ArticleThe Four Keys to Identity and Access Management
The Four Keys to Identity and Access Management (via slashdot) IT departments are facing wave after wave of security challenges. This isn’t just a series of little breakers, such as constant attacks...
View ArticleWhy you should know BOTH business and I.T.
Why You Should Know Both Business and IT A great guest post by Benjamin Weiss My firm has been in the IT staffing business for more than a decade now. And while I could spend all day talking about the...
View ArticleSolaris Tape Drive Commands
Sun StorageTek SCSI Tape Drive Another Solaris “F1″ call (we use the term F1 for help-desk calls) This time a user needed a file stored on the Solaris SPARC server from over a month ago. That long ago...
View ArticleAutomatically sync your Docs to Google Drive
Do you ever ask yourself “Why was I making this so difficult?“ Well, I found myself asking that very question last week. I had setup RSYNC on my Mac OS X desktop to sync items from my Documents folder...
View ArticleHOW TO: Upgrade to LibreOffice 4 on Ubuntu 12.10
Okay – time to ditch LibreOffice 3.6 on one of my Ubuntu machines and install version 4.0. This is intended as just a quick Down and Dirty post on the steps I took. If you have any questions just...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi first look
UPS was kind enough to delivery my first Raspberry Pi on Thursday! Why do I think this little SoC (System on a Chip) computer is going to be like a potato chip? You can’t have just one. Raspberry Pi...
View ArticleAnd Then There Were Two
OS X and Chromium OS the only two left standing after the latest Zero Day Initiative competition Recently, HP’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) held the annual Pwn2Own competition as a part of CanSecWest...
View ArticleSolaris Uptime
Why does it just tickle me to see some outrageous uptime on L’Unix servers? I was just logged in to a remote Solaris server to help a user. I didn’t know their username so just hit the “w(ho)”...
View ArticleSolaris Package Management
I needed to install GhostScript on a Solaris 10 SPARC server to support a project where we are moving a customer from printing and snail-mailing paper invoices to e-mail a PDF of the invoice each...
View ArticleRHEL 6 Installation Options
Okay – Configuring a new RHEL 6 KVM Host to throw in the rack alongside all the VMware ESXi hosts. While I was about to start with the basic core server and only install the packages I wanted...
View ArticleLinux Dual Boot Fedora 18 & Ubuntu 13.04
I wanted to create a dual boot system with Fedora 18 and Ubuntu 13.04 for use as a development desktop (and ya’ know – just because you can). So I took a Sun Ultra 20 M2 that was collecting dust and...
View ArticleSun Ray Wed Administration CSS Issue
PROBLEM: You fire up Chrome or Firefox to go to the GUI Admin page on your Sun Ray Server but no servers are listed! You can just about notice that they get listed really fast and then quickly...
View ArticleWAN Fail Over & Load Balancing
I love it when things just work. We have a remote location that runs on three T1 circuits. It rarely goes down but rarely is not synonymous with “never”. So a while back I configured a backup...
View ArticleDo you know how to spot a failing service?
This past weekend we moved one of our offices to a new facility a few miles away. In the process two of our Solaris SPARC servers that run in a mini-cluster came down for the first time in a l-o-n-g...
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