The Sys Admin

Here is a great Linux Admin blog with plenty of content for the both the beginner and the advanced Linux Admin. The name of the blog is nixCraft and it has been in my RSS reader for a while, and I wanted to share with you a couple of the scripts and links that I [...]

I am losing a great Linux/Application admin next week who is leaving MIT to pursuing a new opportunity with a startup. We will really miss him but at the same time we are happy for him and wish him well. His loss will impact our group so we are posting his position now in the [...]

I came across another great Unix Support site that I thought I would share with you. Brandon Hutchinson is a Senior Unix Engineer who started to document his work for reference by himself and coworkers. The site is http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/ and he has also started to wiki to better manage changes and allow others to contribute. [...]

Since starting at MIT my support focus has been on the Linux and Solaris environments as opposed to Microsoft environments from my last position. Getting reacquainted with SSH, SSL and Apache has been fun and picking up Kerberos, PGP, GPG, and Oracle Application Server has been great. I wanted to share an SCP problem that [...]

I am sorry for the lack of posts here, I recently changed positions which has kept me fairly busy. I just started at MIT in their application infrastructure services group and have been focusing on my new position more than my blogs. This weekend I started reading and came across a post from Kris at [...]

I have had a couple inquiries and suggestions after my last post however I have had no real written contributions. The one bright spot is a note that I received from Kris at Geekbits3. Kris is a system administrator and blogger from Australia that publishes a great blog that focuses on Unix and Linux management. [...]

I started this blog in April with the intent of providing additional resources to Linux, Unix, Windows and Network community. After taking inventory of all of my posts since April, most posts are Link related as opposed to content and discussion related. I have been focusing more on links as opposed to writing about How-To’s [...]

I came across a great little Linux/Unix blog that is worth checking out. It’s called the Linux Screw and there is plenty of great Linux and Unix content, presented in a nice clean looking blog, with plenty of graphics.
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Technorati : Linux, Unix

One tool that we often use is Acronis True Image with Universal Restore. Acronis True Image allows us to easily migrate off of older hardware onto new hardware with it support of dissimilar hardware types. You can take and Image of an application running on an older outdated piece of hardware and restore that image [...]

I came upon a great list of System Administration tools for all environments this evening after reading a recent Friends in Tech (FIT) post. The site is www.tlbox.com and they have a section of many System Admin Tools.
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Technorati : System Administration