A few hours ago, the coastline of Chili suffered an 8.8 magnitude earthquake. This earthquake was powerful enough, and in the right location, to generate a large destructive tsunami. Apparently the Juan Fernandez islands, off the coast, were hit with a large tsunami already, although I seriously doubt the height mentioned in those headlines. In [...]

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I’ve mentioned the Professional IT Community Conference (PICC) before, but now the fun has really started. Registration is open and the speakers have been announced! The cost is low, and the benefits are huge. I know from Google Analytics that this site receives hits from over 500 unique users in the region of this conference, [...]

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I get the feeling that this will be making the sysadmin-blog rounds :-) Today’s XKCD is excellent, and already has a huge following from the sysadmins on twitter. The alt-text is: The weird sense of duty really good sysadmins have can border on the sociopathic, but it’s nice to know that it stands between the [...]

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Me neither, usually. As it turns out, someone else noticed, too. I found a very insightful column written by Steve Schwartz, called No One Knows What the F%#* They’re Doing. I feel like I should warn you…the language in that article is a bit strong…consistently strong. “Shit” is used 24 times, as far as my [...]

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This morning, Joseph Kern brought something interesting to my attention. Apparently, Dell is no longer supporting 3rd party drives in their current (Gen 11) Poweredge servers. Just in case Dell decides to yank that discussion, here it is, verbatim: From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Philip Tait Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 4:31 PM To: linux-poweredge-Lists [...]

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Probably the most well known sysadmin-related podcast, Mind of Root, picked up on my recent column, Sysadmins aren’t (necessarily) programmers…“. Steve mentions the post at around 49 minutes in. If you don’t listen to Mind of Root, you really should, if you can find time in your day. A lot of the focus is on [...]

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