We’re back!

After a long negotiation process between my DNS provider and the registrar of the domain thieves, virtual.net is back where it has belonged since early 1993: with me.  Huzzah!
My advice, in retrospect, is that if your domain is hijacked, immediately file with ICANN, over the protests of your registrar if necessary.  Fortunately I got my [...]

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Chalup PM Book in Progress!

Over the past 6 years I’ve taught literally hundreds of sysadmins, network admins, and other IT professionals the fundamentals of a streamlined project management process that I call “Practical Project Management”. For the past 3 years, I’ve also taught “Project Troubleshooting”. All this time, the folks in the classes have said, “This is [...]

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Liveblogging LISA’07

So here I am in Dallas TX, at the annual LISA conference for systems administrators. It’s been a great conference so far, even though I haven’t gotten out of the hotel since I arrived on Sunday evening. Heck, I haven’t gotten off the lobby/2nd/3rd floor zone!
I love it when I can do all [...]

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Mac OS DNS fix for Second Life

I’d been completely stumped earlier this year while attempting to try Second Life– the Mac client just “no va”, wouldn’t go, for me. I got an error suggesting that my DNS was busted and that I should try connecting to www.secondlife.com, and open a ticket if that didn’t work. How I was supposed [...]

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Both books now published and available!

The Practice of System and Network Administration, 2nd Edition (Limoncelli, Hogan, Chalup)

Handbook of Network and System Administration

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Stripes vs. Spots: Staying with Tiger on the Mac

I’ve been on a grand unification quest to find all the duplicates and old versions and generally clean the heck up on my desktop Mac, in preparation for a clean full “reference” backup and then a Leopard upgrade. I’m hearing enough security kerfuffle about the new (dis)improved firewall on Leopard; that I’m feeling [...]

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"But will it scale?"

Doing some remedial reading on this summer’s Great Twitter
Scaling
Kerfuffle, found a great quote from Phil at Progressive Data Solutions, in his writeup on Railsconf:
“To me, this question is a “shark-attack” question. Sure, you could get attacked by a shark if you go swimming in the ocean, but you should probably worry about other things [...]

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Intro to Patterns

Here is a brief introduction to Patterns, and thoughts on IT pattern creation (PDF) presented at BayLISA in December of 1998, and, if memory serves, as a Works-in-Progress at LISA that year.

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now that is a first for me…

…though not for a number of friends. Still, I’m easily amused.
I HAS A AMAZON LISTING.
w00t!

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kill, kill, and KILL AGAIN!!

Mac drop problem was thermal shock. Desk is no longer in kitchen/DR area, under cold HVAC, so basically can’t run iMac G5 when house ambient temp is 75-plus. #$%@!!
Cracking it open and blowing the dust bunnies out, of which there were very few, just cooled it enough so that it takes longer to [...]

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