I’ve recently had the opportunity with wiping 13 SCSI drives. The drives are small- 36 and 18 gigabyte drives, and they do contain sensitive data. They will be sent off to a third party for physical destruction, but we need to make sure that the data is completely overwritten on the disk in a secure [...]
After weighing in the pros and cons, it looks like I’ll be migrating my blog, and all of it’s data to a Movable Type install, rather than a WordPress install? Why? I’m hoping to take some strain off the server by removing the database on the posts. Honestly, I don’t know why blog engines have [...]
Today, as my wife and I were headed into Target, I thought of the cheap USB thumb drives they usually have on sale, and I was tempted to purchase some. Then I got to thinking: what if I could use those thumb drives as one disk, using LVM, and have the ability to take that [...]
Today is a big day. Christer Edwards and I have gone into business with each other starting a Linux and Unix company here in Utah. We’re named “Root Certified, LLC”. We specialize in Linux hosting, Linux and Unix consulting and auditing. You can find more about us at our page: http://rootcertified.com. If your company is [...]
