Taskomatic troubleshooting, systems always show available updates – Spacewalk 2.3 / Satellite 5.x
Lately one of my projects at work is to get a patch management solution in place for our RHEL/CentOS Linux systems. Since
17
Aug
Running Linux commands on many servers at a time
I’ve been busy at work lately… setting up a new patch process to include implementation, migration from our old,
14
May
New TrueAbility tests WordPress and Linux administration skills
Update (1/26/15): The final results are in, and I ended up at 23rd out of 189 challengers. Not bad, I get (another)
02
Jan
Minor victory at work after months of boredom
It’s been a while since I’ve been happy to do nothing at work. For a short while, I didn’t mind sitting
08
Aug
Hiring companies: if you want it written in X, ask for it to be written in X
I recently took an online AbillityScreen through TrueAbility for a remote position, and one of the tasks was to program some
13
May
TrueAbility Linux Showdown #6! Part 2
Day 2 of TrueAbility’s Linux Showdown #6 hit us with some MySQL stuff. Again, some things I had never touched but
26
Feb
TrueAbility Linux Showdown #6! Part 1
Almost forgot about TrueAbility’s Linux Showdown… Having never touched an nginx config file in my life, I’m
25
Feb
Quite possibly the best answer to an old interview question we had at CSC
The question was: “What is the difference between hard and soft mounts when using NFS?” I will copy and paste a
19
Jul
Google (GMail team specifically) randomly decides to enforce strict SSL for external POP3/IMAP accounts
After Google announced it was doing away with personal (or was it trial?) Google Apps accounts, I’m getting the
17
Dec
DNSMasq breaks DNSBL! Fixed…
So this was driving me nuts, and was effectively stopping me from turning off GMail and using my own e-mail server with
30
Apr
