Yearly Archives: 2009

Secure Hard Drive Wipe

I’ve been wip­ing a lot of hard dri­ves recently. I use shred to do the job. What do you do to your dri­ves before dis­pos­ing of them?

August 26, 2009 – 12:00 am | By Nick Anderson | Posted in Posts | Tagged , | Comments (14)

Just a little pickmeup

Wow I can’t believe these never made the top 40! IBM One Hun­dred Per­cent Club IBM anthem March On With IBM IBM rally song Inspired by Ben Rock­woods com­ment today about the IBM Songbook

August 25, 2009 – 4:47 pm | By Nick Anderson | Posted in Posts | Tagged | Comments (0)

Support Fail

I am a big fan of chat sup­port. I don’t have to drain my bat­tery wait­ing on hold until its my turn in the queue. Plus when deal­ing with error mes­sages its infi­nitely more help­ful to be able to copy/paste to the agent. Sadly find­ing com­pe­tent help is still an issue. Here is an excerpt …

August 24, 2009 – 1:12 pm | By Nick Anderson | Posted in Posts | Tagged | Comments (12)

One liners: a tip

Have you ever started writ­ing a one-liner and half way in real­ized it was a bit more com­plex than you first thought? If your shell is bash, next time that hap­pens try ctrl-x ctrl-e. It will take your cur­rent line and stuff it into the your default edi­tor (export EDITOR=vim).

August 22, 2009 – 1:07 pm | By Nick Anderson | Posted in Posts | Tagged , , | Comments (5)

The great debate: breadth vs depth of knowledge

Ryan Ned­eff posted a com­ment over on Matt Sim­mons blog about the Future of Sys­tem Admin­is­tra­tors. Mainly he was respond­ing to a com­ment by Michael Hal­li­gan on twit­ter stat­ing “I feel that any sysad­min today who isn’t learn­ing Ruby and either Chef or Pup­pet will be unem­ployed in 5 years”.  Ryan brought up the debate …

August 20, 2009 – 3:23 pm | By Nick Anderson | Posted in Posts | Comments (8)