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An article I wrote a couple years ago, but still very relevant, has been picked up by O’Reilly. Secure Your Linux Server was written as a result of watching so many fly by night “web hosts” buy cheap dedicated servers and then have no idea what to do with them. I would find them [...]

As of the writing of this entry, b5media has over 90 blogs with more coming everyday it would seem. Part of my job as Systems Administrator is to automate my tasks. For instance, before a blog setup would take weeks because of all the people it had to visit before being launched. [...]

Useful Windows Sysadmin info about login scripts in an Active Directory environment
Using Logon Scripts in Pure and Mixed Active Directory Environments
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Written by Aaron Brazell on October 14, 2005

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It may surprise some of you that I am coming out in defense of Microsoft. Well, more accurately, I’m taking a neutral stance as it pertains to a widely lambasted Monad vulnerability. So many people on one side of the Microsoft vs. the world argument are criticizing Microsoft over supposed viruses and exploits written for [...]

($1 to Recording Artist Bryan Duncan for the title)
I’ve been thinking about Sysadmin stuff a lot more here lately. (I’ve got some upgrades and reorganizations to do, and it’s in the front of my brain right now).
Organization…
I’m finding that on many occasions in the past, I’ve organized (over-organized?) systems (filesystems, storage, etc.) with an [...]

Apologies for the outage of the past 6-8 hours. There were a number of services that were all bound up that I decided to restart last night. Advice to all of you budding sysadmins out there — make sure when you restart a service, it actually starts! Because I didn’t verify, the DNS service has [...]