Category Archives: Sysadmin

When someone asks what I do for a living and I tell them I’m a System Administrator, the conversation usually stops. Folks usually think “oh computers” or figure there isn’t really anything to talk about past that point because it’s … Continue reading →

Something just clicked in my head when I was listening to one of the Dan Benjamin podcasts during a maintenance window… later today I’ll have the fruits of my labor. The Hacker Admin podcast should go live later today. I’ll … Continue reading →

This is really easy to forget about, and you’re likely to completely forget until some obscure plugin, you know, like Adobe Flash, ends up taking part in an evil plot to destroy your system. So check your plug-ins regularly!

I’ve been reading Thomas Limoncelli’s Time Management for System Administrators (book | kindle) over the last well… few months, and while drafting up a sort of response/critique on the book, I came across the following videos (beware, they’re quite long).