Raspberry Pi Wifi Redux

OK now. You heard me describe in my last post how my raspberry pis don’t hold a wifi connection persistently. This weekend, after a little googling, I believe I have found the answer to that problem. Well, technically, 2 answers. And I am not sure which one works, so I am using them both 😀 […]

virsh frustrations

Some of you, I hope, will be familiar with a command called “virsh”. This command in Linux is the shell command to control KVM VMs. It works great, if you know how to use it and, for the record, KVM is a fantastic virtual host environment. Although I have run my home server infrastructure on […]

Replace HD in Dell Inspiron N5110

I am no stranger to replacing bad equipment in servers, desktops and laptops, but some laptops don’t make it easy. This was one. A couple years ago I swapped out an aging hdd in an older Dell Inspiron with a new ssd and, boy, the performance improved drastically. Lately, I have been using a new(er) […]

It’s NOT Telecommuting!

OK, so it is telecommuting – but hear me out for just a second.. I have been involved in a job search as a Linux admin for a few months now and one of the barriers I keep running in to is (get this) physical location, or company location. WHY? Business owners, let me reason […]

“Fixing” an old laptop

A few years ago when I was in the market for a new laptop I picked up one of the then wildly popular and cheap Dell Inspiron 1545. There are gobs of these running around now and you can find them cheap if you look (click the pic for links to Amazon). I used this […]

Review: Penetration Testing with the Bash shell by Keith Makan – Packt Pub.

Penetration Testing with the Bash shell I’ll have to say that, for some reason, I thought this book was going to be some kind of guide to using only bash itself to do penetration testing. It’s not that at all. It’s really more like doing penetration testing FROM the bash shell, or command line of […]

Linux System Administration LiveLessons By Ben Whaley (Pearson)

http://www.informit.com/store/linux-system-administration-livelessons-video-training-9780133551310 Wow, where do I even start. This is a LOT of material and really, my first review of a lengthy video (series). The series consists of 9 downloadable .mov files which total up to approximately 1.3Gb of space and around 350 minutes of video, or about 5.5 hours according to my video players calculations. […]

Linux Recruting

I get a LOT of emails from headhunters, many asking me to come work for them doing every-damn-thing for no money as a “consultant” on (only) a 6 month contract 🙂 I am sure all tech people do. Occasionally I get email from a recruiter who is actually asking me for help looking for a […]

Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment 3/ed

Good gracious this is a big book! What’s funny is I KNOW I have read and reviewed a previous edition of this book and I spent a half an hour looking for it this morning, but it must have been before I moved and on my old Blog. That being the case, well it’s high […]

BackTrack 5 Cookbook: Quick answers to common problems

You know, sometimes, just sometimes something fortuitous happens to me. This was one of those times. I was contacted by my friends over at Pakt Publishing to review their new book on BackTrack. Of course I said sure. Hey, I am a Linux junkie after all! It had actually been quite a while since I […]