Category Archives: System Administration

Tired

I didn’t get enough sleep last night. (Note to self: try to avoid sounding like the person at work who blames all of his mistakes on lack of sleep and excessive devotion to the cause.) Jules, Geoff and I went … Continue reading

Posted in System Administration, The Netherlands | Leave a comment

SANE 2004

After a weekend spent showing Geoff around Amsterdam, we’re at SANE 2004 for the next 5 days. We’re currently in the Black Hats tutorial, which rather amusingly started with a number of examples of how you can use Google to … Continue reading

Posted in Google, System Administration, The Netherlands | Leave a comment

Random acts of time-killing

I finally got around to getting lm_sensors to work on my main desktop this evening. I now have gkrellm informing me that my CPU fan is spinning at 5443 RPM and the CPU’s temperature is 49°C. Talk about useless information. … Continue reading

Posted in System Administration | Leave a comment

System upgrade

After upgrading my laptop to Fedora Core 2 earlier this week, it was the turn of my workstation, file server and mail/web server today. The dirty deed is now complete and all of my systems are now finally running a … Continue reading

Posted in System Administration | Leave a comment

Next moves

I was thinking about the future today. To make any reasonable judgement about the future, one must demonstrate some wisdom with regard to the past. When I was in my twenties and dissatisfied with my first few jobs, I can … Continue reading

Posted in System Administration | 3 Comments