I’m a slob

Yup, that’s right I’m a slob. It has been rightly said before than I often wear my dinner. I don’t think I have ever worn a white shirt without some kind of tomoto sauce stain on it, and certainly not more than once. So, that brings me to this post. Many years ago I smartly […]

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 […]

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 […]

Knock Knock…

Is anyone in there? Well, admittedly I thought it was time to get in here and blow the virtual dust off. It has been a while and once again, RL has gotten in the way of VL. I have been carrying a bit more burden at work with some issues and projects of late and […]

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 […]

Multi-threaded scripts using screen

Recently I had to do some more email migrations, and I wanted to script them. But how do you take hundreds of migrations and run, say, 15 at a time, scripted, so you don’t beat up your mail server? Good question! What I settled on was writing a bash script to call a certain number […]

GeChic On-Lap 13.3″ LCD

You would think that my lack of posts here lately meant I had simply dropped of the face of the earth, but that isn’t really so. I have just been extremely busy with the day to day problems facing me in RL, including how to squeeze >that< much more work into my overly busy day. […]

Mint 11 / Ubuntu 11.04 – vpnc+ssh issue

Yes, I know.. Long time since a post, but I have been waiting ’till I had something interesting to comment on 🙂 You should all know by now that Ubuntu 11.04 and Mint 11 are now out in the wild, and both are very nice IMHO. I have been a “Minty” guy now for quite […]

The New Xoom Review, Comin’ Right At You!

OK, I am dating myself here but there used to be this show on when I was a kid, called the New Zoo Review, and for some reason the theme song was playing in repeat in my head while I was thinking about writing this review. That’s how the title comes about, and it’s been […]