So we have all been there, either the package you want is in the tree but it’s an old version, the one missing that vital upgrade that allows you to deploy and go back to sleep and not to actually have to keep watching and doing sys admin stuff. Or there it is everything you [...]
I did say at some point that this was going to be a pretty mixed up blog didn’t I? Well here is a book review, not that its too far away from being technical and, actually, I think its something that anybody working in a technical environment would do well reading it even if they [...]
This time last year I posted this 2011 More running less drinking Save money Blog a week? (a day is certainly not going to happen) rugby….. build my company so that its not just my contracting that brings in money So how have I done? More running and less drinking, as you would expect, [...]
I am really really crap at keeping this thing updated. So much for the once a week, once a month would have been a good start… Listening to Jaguar Skills sitting in for Kissy Sell Out has made over and hours worth of mind numbingly boring text file manipulation actually go very quickly. There is a [...]
So a while back I talked about how to get (k)ubuntu onto the vostro as it didnt have a cd/dvd drive. Luckily things have improved greatly around that and the ability to just get it onto a usb drive to install. So here I am having to give the laptop to one of the other employees in [...]
So here I am again after a little while building a Nagios server. Its amazing how painful you forget the initial configuration of the hosts and groups are. Lots of typing and remembering. Any way, base information in there so I start trying to get all the alreting working and then two problems hit me, [...]
How to install linux and possible other os’s via usb on the dell vostro v130
I’ve grown up. Not that many of you can see from the outside as I’m still behaving the same but some where deep deep inside something has changed. That change was first introduced by me resigning from my role as the security engineer at that there government thing I work for (no names as it [...]