Stupid SysAdmin tricks

I install updates on a pretty regular basis and -- most of the time -- they install without a problem....

This past weekend I attended the Perl / Raku conference in Greenville, SC, USA. It was a great weekend as...

When I first started, I was a young and innocent SysAdmin. I was fortunate because I worked at a couple different jobs where other, seasoned SysAdmins were willing to mentor me and encourage me. None of them laughed at me when I asked what must have seemed to them to have answers that were blindingly obvious. None of these patient SysAdmins ever told me to RTFM.

A little scripting goes a long way to make sure you won’t run out of space with an automated process.

Learn the basics of this handy command line calculator.

Network switches are supposed to be simple devices that work at TCP/IP layer 1, the hardware layer. As far as...