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Computerworld Podcast on the T1000
Computerworld’s podcast this week features a short interview with me on my aventures with the T1000. The podcast Computerworld Input Output: The NYPD’s expanded data warehouse; testing out Sun’s T1000. For the in-depth review of the T1000: T1000 i…
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Making a single extractor
One of my new articles is on smplifying your command line (read more about System Administrators Toolkit: Standardizing your UNIX command-line tools, making your life easier as you move between different environments. The same principles can be ap…
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System Administrators Toolkit: Managing NIS services for authorizations
Managing your authentication service across your network can be achieved in many different ways, but there is a solution that has been available for years that provides synchronized authentication service, and that was designed to work with the Ne…
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System Administrators Toolkit: Backing up key information
Keeping a copy of the vital information that makes up your Unix environment could mean the difference between working again after a failure in hours compared to days. In the latest of my System Administrators Toolkit guide, I examine how best to i…
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Opening up comments (thanks Akismet)
Just as with my other blogs, I had comments disabled on the site because I received a huge amount of comment spam. I’ve been running with Akismet now for months, so I’m going to open up the site for comments. You’re still going to need to register…
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Opening up comments (thanks Akismet)
For a long time I disabled comments on the site because I received a huge amount of comment spam. I’ve been running with Akismet now for months (and filtered over 11,000 items in the process), so I’m going to open up the site for comments. You’re …
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Photo blogging with the K800i
As planned, I got a K800i earlier this week, and it’s taken me the best part of the week to try and sort out all of the different elements. I already did a quick post on Convergence in mobile phones with the SE K800i at ComputerWorld, but I though…
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Live Search Plugin
I’ve noticed that a larger number of people come to the site and start searching for a particular entry, so I’ve decided to add the excellent Wordpress Live Search Plugin to the site. Now when you search, you’ll get a live list beneath the search …
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System Administrators Toolkit: Standardizing your UNIX command-line tools
The latest article in my System Administration Toolkit series at IBM developerWorks has been released. This article on ways of simplifying and standardizing your environment and command-line tools within a heterogeneous environment. As someone who…
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Niagara optimized ‘cooltools’
I’m in the process of doing some testing on the T1000 which I currently have on test at the moment. Some of these tests will be entirely focused on the performance of Cheffy, which uses a combination of Apache, MySQL and Perl. I’ve also been think…