Category: OS

From time to time, all UNIX admins have to quickly write a small shell script to automate specific tasks or monitor data. Why reinvent the wheel? BigAdmin has plenty of ready-to-use scripts classified per categories: Installation, Backup/Restore, Monitoring, Filesystems, … See: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/scripts/indexMon.html

White night for me today! 🙁 Nov 30 21:13:54 kuifje unix: [ID 198239 kern.notice] free: freeing free block, dev:0x76000000b0, block:40432, ino:6291714, fs:/depot Then: [ 22:34:00 root@1-kuifje 0 ] /depot # find . -inum 6291714 -ls find: cannot open .: I/O error

Tired of your classical 2D desktop? Look at this SUN Microsystems project!

Yesterday: download ISOs, burn them, done. 09:00: Boot on CD #1, start upgrade

A nice introduction to the BGP protocol and to the bgpd (Implemenation of BGP under OpenBSD): http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd/index.html

The computer center is empty, Silent except for the whine of the cooling fans. I walk the rows of CPUs, My skin prickling with magnetic flux. I open a door, cold and hard, And watch the lights dancing on the panels. A machine without soul, men call it, But its

Now that Micro$oft officially released the Windows XP SP2, it’s time to cross your fingers before using the magic buttons sequence “Next, Next, Next, Reboot”. The Internet Storm Center asks admins to report their personal experiences regarding the upgrade… URL: http://isc.sans.org/xpsp2.php

<quote> SpecOpS Labs is a software laboratory specializing in the research and development of the next generation OS (Operating System) platforms. SpecOpS Labs recently made an extraordinary discovery involving the Microsoft Windows OS. Our discovery has enabled us to develop a breakthrough software program that we have codenamed David. David

Ode to Lindows 🙂 http://info.lindows.com/LindowsRock/LindowsRock.html

With the amount of viruses, trojans walking thru the Internet, any new PC connected to the “jungle-network” has a very short period of time before being attacked! The first golden rule is: “Keep the host offline until a basic security policy have been defined”. ISC has published an interesting document