Sysadmins

May
23

Friendfeed Sysadmin Room, Twhirl FF support, and Pretend-Sysadmins

admin on May 23rd, 2008

So not long after I complained that there where so few System Administerors on the social media scene, Friendfeed introduces “Rooms” and immediately Adnan takes the initiative and makes a Sysadmin Room.
The uptake was pretty damn fast, probably partly due to Adnans blog being part of the Planetsysadmin collective. (why am I not on there yet?! [...]

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May
11

Sysadmins on Twitter, lack of groups and Seesmic issues

admin on May 11th, 2008

So I have been trying to find and add other System Adminitrators on both Twitter and Friendfeed.
I am a bit picky though. I looked for people that seemed to Tweet at least some of the time about their work, tweeted regularly, and in English. Also preffering Windows Sysadmins over Unix for now, but I might [...]

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May
7

Where are all the Sysadmins?

admin on May 7th, 2008

I posted the following post on The Server Room forum at Ars Technica
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Hi all,
Maybe I just haven’t looked hard enough, but I get the distinct impression that sysadmins, for some reason, are not very community-oriented.
If you look online for developer communities, you find a fantastic amount of forums, websites, and blogging communities.
When I wanted to [...]

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Aug
20

So much to learn, so little time… and my week at DSM

admin on August 20th, 2004

Just finished a week of ad-hoc patch management at DSM again.
Its amazing to me that a company that needs to be as secure as DSM, would allow so many of their mission-criticle pc’s to go completely unmanaged, and thus unpatchedm and un-backuped.
This time round, used my proxy account to update most of the pc’s via [...]

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