Planet Sysadmin clean up
Planet Sysadmin was having some problems running due to some bad feeds. I’ve deleted those and about 20 blogs that were returning 404 or 500 errors for their RSS feeds. If your blog is no longer on the planet, that’s [...]
Wunderlist – task manager for Web, Mac, iOS
Tracking tasks is super easy with Wunderlist. Simple interface and cloud sync between your Mac, iOS device, or the web site gives you many ways to keep track of tasks. Best of all, it’s free. My system? I initially capture [...]
Happy Sysadmin Day!!!!
Thank you to all of you that make IT work! Happy System Administration Day!!!
Ubuntu on the T40
I decided to switch my old T40 to Ubuntu 8. Almost everything worked out of the box. The secret to getting wireless to work was to add the following lines to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist: blacklist padlock_aes blacklist geode_aes These aes modules break [...]
Happy Sysadmin Day!
Have a Happy Sysadmin Day! Thank you to all the people behind the scenes making IT work!
Convert AVI to MP4 for iTunes
iSquint is a cool utility to convert AVI files into iTunes/iPod/AppleTV friendly mp4 files. Works great!
iTunes hang on connect problem
I have a Mac laptop that I take between two networks. One network is an open one at my home and the other is a corporate network with proxy servers. Specifically we use a pac file for automatic proxy configuration. [...]
Einstein Quote
Saw this today and I think it’s the secret to being a kick ass sysadmin: It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.—A.E.
One tool to rule them all
When you need a tool you reach for one of these, right? Why not? It has everything those other tools out there have. Isn’t this the same tool you see all mechanics using? You use one of these for opening [...]
Lenovo just lost a sale
Lenovo is running one hell of a deal on laptops right now. They’ve got 25% off for their anniversary sale and dealnews.com has a coupon that stacks another 10% off on that. I’ve been using an old T40 with Fedora [...]
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