Normally, I wouldn’t care about such things, however, I got this in the mail the other day, and found it too funny to pass up.
Republican representative Brad Dee is running for Legislative District 11 here in my county in Utah. When my wife checked the mail, she called me to tell me about this political [...]
The key to being an effective administrator is understanding the software that you administer. Software administrators are nothing more than employees who are well rounded in software applications, their versions, how they are configured and installed and lastly how to troubleshoot them should something go wrong. Effective administrators also have a set of tools under [...]
As GNU/Linux system administrators, we are often confronted with adding user accounts on the system, deleting user accounts, and modifying existing user accounts. At times, this can be a time consuming process. Further, keeping user accounts synchronized between machines, if not using a directory service, can be a bit of a pain. Have you ever [...]
Thanks to David Evans and Christer Edwards, I’m now a Mutt user. I’ll spare the reasons why I switched, except to mention that I wanted a mail client that did mail standards correctly. Further, as stated on the Mutt site, “All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less”. I am in agreement.
So, seeing as [...]
I’ve come to the conclusion that the only user space software needed on a Linux machine is a browser and a terminal. Everything else is bloat.
I just discovered mutt, a fantastic email client. Well, technically, I didn’t “just discover it”, as I have played with it in the past, but never got far with it. [...]
Wikimedia is moving all 400 of its servers from Red Hat and Fedora to Ubuntu 8.04.
After reading the article in its entirety, a few thoughts were going through my head. First, was why not CentOS? Wikimedia mentions that they are running different versions of Red Hat and Fedora, which is a problem in itself that [...]
