sprinting on a tightrope.

TIL – Linux – getting around “operation not permitted”

Today we had a strange corrupted file end up on one of our backup servers, and was not allowing any kind of chown or rm

19 Oct

“UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.” – Dennis Ritchie Dennis Ritchie

13 Oct

Ok, so that’s not my “real” title. But recently I was asked to present in place of my company’s

06 Oct

Long story short, there is only a “Run as Administrator” option in Server 2008, unless you hold down

14 Sep

Ok, so it’s not really Stephen Hawking. But it definitely sounds like him. ManageEngine (http://www.manageengine.com),

09 Sep

My current company uses GoDaddy for hosting, SSL certs, and some other services I haven’t discovered yet. A few weeks

01 Sep

Funny thing we found out at work today: Pidgin, which is a multi-protocol chat client I’ve been using for years and

26 Jul

From here: Shift+F10 brings up the context menu in Windows. For desk jockeys like me who are on the computer all day, and

21 Jul

linux

Figured I’d post this here in case anyone is looking for a Linux job. I’m happy at my current position, and

27 Jun

Careful of the rm -f ${FILE} at the end … I’ve commented it out at first, but if you want to save space,

21 Jun