The Sys Admin

Just testing the Typepad interface on the iPhone.

I  know that I have really neglected this blog, but I plan on contributing here. When I started this blog, my team was supporting a large Windows environment, along with a small Unix AIX and Solaris environment. After joining MIT my focus has changed to primarily a Linux (RedHat Enterprise 4 and 5), Solaris, Ubuntu [...]

To all those who keep the trains and the computers running, I say Thank-You.

 
Take a look at wordle.net. It’s a nice flexible little tool to create word clouds.
Here is a wordcloud of my delicious bookmarks.
 

 
Check it out, wordle.net

Technorati Tags: Ubuntu,OpenSSH,Debian,OpenSSL
A serious vulnerability has been reported in the Debian and Ubuntu distributions of Linux. The vulnerability is a security problem with OpenSSL and OpenSSH which are used to encrypt your data when connecting to secure web pages and when connecting via ssh to other nodes and servers. The issue has been described as [...]

If you are considering installing and using Ubuntu, there are many great Ubuntu resources available to check out, and here is a quick little video that walks you thru the installation process, and shows us how easy the Linux and Ubuntu installation process has become.
 

Were you impacted by the skype outage last week ? Read the entire post from Skype’s blog at …. http://heartbeat.skype.com/2007/08/what_happened_on_august_16.html

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What happened on August 16

On Thursday, 16th August 2007, the Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and suffered a critical disruption. The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the [...]

Here is a great little utility that I found referenced at the MikeTechShow.com. I tried it and it works like a charm. This is another utility that all system admins should have.Check it out ….

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ProduKey A small utility that displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of MS-Office, Windows, Exchange Server, and [...]

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