sprinting on a tightrope.

Maximo iP-HS3 breaks again

Back in June I had a problem with my Maximo headset I purchased in January (see here). It seems these things have a 5-6 month

27 Oct

Use case: You’re writing a shell script to stop/start a system service, but only want to do so when there is no

27 Oct

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