The discounted registration and full-conference specials will end on the 16th. Now is an excellent time to register for the conference for best prices. http://www.casitconf.org/casitconf11/Registration.html
This is a thoughtful look at our dependence on email as the hub of our online identity and the risks of a personal email account compromise. I use two factor authentication every day (RSA token) and frankly, I’d love to have a password vault for all my online passwords, that used two factor. http://sysadmin1138.net/mt/blog/2010/12/bootstrapped-authentication.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Sysadmin1138+%28SysAdmin1138+Events%29
Fred Lloyd is a ham and sysadmin. His site, QRZ.com is one of the largest ham radio sites in the world. He just moved it into the cloud. an interview with Fred Lloyd (AA7BQ), publisher of QRZ.com
A recent discussion of separation of duties and managing the distinction between root and application code made me realize that not everyone is familiar with some of the techniques for isolating root and application.
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There are people who insist that you should never top post. There are people who insist that you should always top post. Both sides need to just get over it already. By volume, though the world is gone to top posting. Outlook does it by default. Gmail does it by default. AOL does it by…
Egyptian authorities “turned off the net” by forcing ISPs to withdraw BGP routes. http://gigaom.com/2011/01/28/how-egypt-switched-off-the-internet/ If asked to do this in your country how would you respond?
/root/install.log:/usr/bin/vncinitconfig: line 139: uname: command not found When will folks learn to fully qualify commands in scripts? Or at *least* set the PATH before invoking unqualified commands.
err: Could not retrieve catalog: Syntax error at ‘}’; expected ‘}’ at /blah/blah/blah.pp:56 on node blah.blah really? really?
The third edition of the SWEBOK is due out this year. System Administration could use this fairly mature guide to a neighboring body of knowledge as a model for our own guide to our body of knowledge.
World IPv6 Day is June 18. Are you ready? World IPv6 day is coming – June 8 2011