At one client site, we've recently moved from tape to disk for our offline backup storage medium. We debated what to do with the old tape loader and tapes, and concluded that we would never go back and so should get rid of them entirely. I was...
A few times recently i've had to think about the essential applications i use on my desktop. The latest was Anthony Burke's tweet, but the recent churn in the Linux desktop world and my unhappiness with Unity means that i need to be prepared for...
Debian Project News recently linked to a helpful infographic of Debian versions. It doesn't include anything about backports, volatile/updates, or contrib, main, and non-free, but it's a great resource nonetheless. The main point i would disagree...
It must be the week for stupid error messages. I just tried to create a private SSL certificate for one of our server VMs from our Novell eDirectory iManager server. The CSR was created by OpenSSL on the command line on the Ubuntu server, and i...
Last week i made some fairly significant changes on a client's production firewall/routing cluster during our maintenance window. The next morning there were reports of file server drives not connecting correctly and inaccessible web sites. ...
The Register has a review of the Ubuntu 11.04 beta release which suggests there are some rocky times for existing Ubuntu users ahead. The part the article that stuck out to me reads: The highlight of the current launcher is the plethora of...
Today we have a guest blog post from my wife Angela. She is an avid Ubuntu user (in fact, so are our kids) and a great web researcher in general. She wanted to borrow digital editions of books from our local library; however, the books are only...
EDIT: As of 2013-10, I've started an Observium fork called LibreNMS. This is just here for historical reference. I recently started using Observium (a great network monitoring package which you should use), and found that I had some useful...
(I used to love Stan Kelly-Bootle's column in Unix World, so i thought i'd share an experience a little like the ones he used to write about. Hope some old-timers out there can get into it...) The task i was working on involved taking a file...
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