Archive for August, 2007
Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Tonight I came across an extremely useful "unofficial powertoy" for Windows for creating ISO images from CD's, and burning ISO images from Explorer shell. It's called (funnily enough) ISO Recorder and is available for Windows XP, 2003, and Vista. I've always been quite surprised that Windows doesn't just have this ...
Posted in Microsoft Windows, Tips and Tricks, Operating Systems | No Comments »
Saturday, August 25th, 2007
I have added the following SysAdmin Blogs to Planet SysAdmin in the last week or so:
AspiringSysAdmin.com
Miljan Karadzic
My SysAd Blog -- UNIX
RootPrompt
The Unix Blog
Within Reason
number 9
Thanks for all the recommendations. Please let me know if you know ...
Posted in Planet SysAdmin, Blogging, Internet | 1 Comment »
Saturday, August 25th, 2007
After the death of the hard disk in my laptop this week, I thought I would use it as an opportunity to upgrade my laptop to the latest Ubuntu release, Feisty. I've always found Gnome a bit sluggish on my 1.2GHz "sub-notebook" Samsung Q30, so this time I opted to ...
Posted in Adobe Acrobat Reader, Mozilla Firefox, Software, Tips and Tricks, Linux, Ubuntu, Operating Systems | No Comments »
Monday, August 20th, 2007
That's right, SysAdminDiary.com is no longer a comment-spam virgin. Today it received it's first spam comment, 20 days after my first post. I'm actually kind of surprised it didn't happen sooner. I have several other blogs and they receive hundreds of spam comments per day. Fortunately I have Akismet to ...
Posted in Spam, Blogging, Internet | No Comments »
Sunday, August 19th, 2007
I've added a few more blogs to Planet SysAdmin in the last week or so:
Anton Chuvakin Blog - "Security Warrior"
Everything Sysadmin
Life of a Sysadmin (thanks to Saint Aardvark)
The FreeBSD Diary
Please let me know if you know of any other sysadmin related ...
Posted in Planet SysAdmin, Blogging, Internet | No Comments »
Friday, August 17th, 2007
Today I installed and configured FreeBSD 6.2 on a Soekris Engineering net5501 (which was purchased by mail order from Yawarra Information Appliances in Victoria, who have been very helpful). It will be functioning as an office firewall/gateway. This particular unit has a 433MHZ AMD Geode Integrated Processor and 256MB of ...
Posted in Embedded systems, VMWare, Software, Tips and Tricks, Operating Systems, Hardware, FreeBSD | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
I quite liked this joke that I received today, so much so that I think I'll share it with you.
A man in a hot air balloon realised he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted, "Excuse me, can ...
Posted in Management, Humour | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
I've just learned that recipients of unemployment benefits (welfare/"the dole") here in Australia are able to fulfill their "Work for The Dole" ("mutual obligation" -- service to the community to continue receiving welfare benefits) requirements by contributing to open source software projects -- whether by providing their services as a ...
Posted in Open Source, Society | No Comments »
