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 ...

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.

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”.

You can spend 50-60 hours a week managing your Unix servers and responding to your users' problems and still feel as if you're not getting much done or you can adopt some good work habits that will ...

Een ex-Unix-systeembeheerder op het Medco Health Solutions Inc-ziekenhuis in Amerika, New Jersey, bekende dat hij van plan was om kritieke ziekenhuisdata van 70 servers te verwijderen. De man kan een ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...