My Motorola Droid (purchased on November 10^th, 2009, 4 days after the release) is still running Android 2.0.1. I guess this is somewhat out of laziness - I love the Incredible and its new (and more refined) Android version and UI, but my phone is rooted. I’m …

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I work as a Linux Sysadmin (among many other non-official titles) in a small group that mainly provides services. We run wireless and student computing labs across a whole campus, but other than that (and most of that) is just back-end systems - web servers, RADIUS, DHCP, etc. As a result …

Just a short update… I know I haven’t posted anything in quite a while, but I hope to get back into the habit of doing so… or even making daily posts like I had wanted.

1. The truck that was totaled has been replaced with a newer, nicer one.
2. I …

Since so many people seem to have missed all of the communications via facebook (well, I can’t blame them, I spend less time there every time they make an “improvement”), I guess I should give in and post something to my usually-so-professional blog, explaining a bit about what happened …

This question was posted both to the SAGE-members list (thread) and to ServerFault:

Looking for some advice here, as my search has turned up to be pretty fruitless.

My group (9 people - SAs, programmers, and two network guys) is looking for some sort of web tool to… ahem… “facilitate …

I was recently reading an interesting article, “from tasks to assurances: redefining system administration”, by Alva L. Couch, in the April 2010 issue of ;LOGIN:. He makes a lot of good points, mainly that system administration has been defined by tasks, but should really be defined by assurances (a much …

As mentioned in one of my recent posts, I occasionally have to setup catchall pages in Apache. The general idea is usually that I either want a vhost that serves one page for any conceivable request, or that I moved something and want to alert the visitor, but provide a …

It’s April 1^st, also known as April Fool’s Day. While I, unfortunately, haven’t planned any pranks or jokes myself this year (I guess I’ve just been too busy), I always try to find as many of Google‘s jokes as possible. Despite being a behemoth …