Last week I briefly departed from reality, thanks to the inexplicable actions of the CRTC, but this week, I’m off the drugs and back on terra firma — sort of. Anyway, to celebrate my return to the ...

I was hoping that some of you who work in the industry might be willing to share some of your experiences as a UNIX systems administrator. I am still trying to figure out what to do with my life and ...

We’re not talking about the kind of funny that starts off with three Unix administrators walking into a bar. Were that the case I might be able to explain why Brendan Gregg’s collection of “freeware ...

With the clocks turned back and the Big Vote about to happen, I’m up for a bit of nostalgia. And nothing pleases me more than doting on some of my favorite Unix commands, aliases and “tricks”.

Many server automation and orchestration solutions, like Puppet and Chef, rely on a mixture of solution-specific coding, Web UIs, and command-line tools to make the magic happen. Ansible is different.

When will people learn? You don’t mess with Unix admins! Not because they wield a lot of power or anything, but because they’re generally the type of socially maladjusted people who are liable to flip ...

A former Unix system administrator at Medco Health Solutions Inc.’s Fair Lawn, N.J., office on Wednesday pleaded guilty in federal court to attempting to sabotage critical data, including individual ...

Man, it's getting rough out there. Bills piling up, eviction notices, INet bill fickena come down tha pipe.. What's a Unix Admin got ta do to make an honest dollar these days?<BR><BR>Well, I've looked ...

A California man pleaded guilty Friday to charges that he shut down the data center responsible for managing the state’s electrical supply. Lonnie Denison, 33, is now facing as much as five years in ...