Personally, my data isn’t so important that I need to keep years of it backed up to tape. Obviously, that isn’t always the case in a corporate environment, but luckily that’s not a problem for me.
That being said, I do like to have at least a week’s worth of backups just in case I [...]

Categories: System Administration

I recently installed Microsoft Windows XP Pro in Parallels Desktop on my iMac. After going through the usual motions of updates and tweaks, I set up my user account so that I wouldn’t be using the built-in Administrator account. After rebooting the virtual machine, I noticed that on restart, I was automatically logged [...]

Categories: System Administration

When working in an office environment, it’s very easy to gather multiple administrators into one office and show them how a task is done. If, on the other hand, your administrators are spread out, these impromptu meetings are nearly impossible. GNU Screen (in multiuser mode) can solve all your problems.
When in multiuser mode, [...]

Categories: System Administration

Although this site isn’t about job searches, the fact of the matter is that most network and system administrators have an interest in getting paid for their efforts. (Personally, I didn’t get into Cisco networking for the glamorous parties with Paris Hilton, but maybe you did?)
J.D. at Get Rich Slowly recently covered three ways [...]

Categories: System Administration

If you’ve been following along in the OS X Caching Only Name Server series of articles, you should now have a running BIND daemon and be ready to start using it.
Configuring an interface to use a local DNS server via the Network Panel in System Preferences is pretty straightforward. As you can see in [...]

Categories: System Administration