So You Want To Be A Linux System Administrator?
I was digging through Server Fault today looking for some thoughts on CARP (think HSRP, just free) and came across an honest and interesting question. The author wanted to know what skills and experience would make him more desirable in the world of UNIX like operating systems. I began to answer his question and found [...]
Why I don’t spend money on IT certifications
Some reports that were recently published talked about GNU/Linux professionals without certifications making more money with less turn over than professionals with certifications. I have never felt the need to waste my money on Linux certifications, for serveral reasons: I actively contribute to many free / open source software projects as well as GNU/Linux distributions. [...]
CK patchset is not “quite” dead :)
I was avoiding doing what I really should have been doing today by reading some of the Linux-centric newsgroups that I enjoy. I was very pleased to learn that some good natured Gentoo users are trying with all of their might to keep the (now famous) CK patch set alive and kicking. Get the patch [...]
My backup enchilada
In all honesty, this is just a recipe for my enchilada, I’m still in the prep and planning stage. My goal: Make a really efficient idiot-proof backup program that (could) use the the features of an ext3cow file system if one happened to be present. I don’t spare a penny when it comes to computers [...]
Linux 2.6.23-rc8 looks good!
I grabbed a copy of 2.6.23-rc8 today and spent a couple hours configuring the build. There has been quite a few grumbles about the Linux kernel leaving ‘old’ hardware in the dust. So what, to my wondering eyes did appear to my old Pentium 4 and 8 tiny reindeer? Kconfig (aka make menuconfig) seems a [...]
The beauty of patches
There seems to be quite an uproar over the future of the Linux kernel. In particular, the adversity that Con Kolivas met when sending in his scheduler patches for main stream inclusion. Apparently, its causing quite a few rifts (and nastygrams) for and between Kernel developers. I, frankly, don’t get it. Well, I kind of [...]
