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The software industry: So efficient, we invented shelfware
Have you considered helping customers to stop overspending?
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Are you being robbed of sleep by badly designed servers?
Sysadmin Blog Mornings, nights, they all blur into one for our man Trevor
British bookworms deem Amazon 'evil'
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Chuck away your e-reader - everyone else is
Bitcoins: A GIANT BUBBLE? Maybe, but currency could still be worthwhile
Lessons from tulip-hoarding Dutch speculators of 1634
CIOs: Are you your CEO's business partner or their GIMP?
CIO Blog A Machiavellian guide for the modern CIO
I salute Lady THATCHER - Shoreditch's SILICON GODMOTHER
¡Bong! Investor Steve directs the baroness's funeral
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Trevor Pott is a full-time nerd from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He splits his time between systems administration, technology writing, and consulting. As a consultant he helps Silicon Valley start-ups better understand systems administrators and how to sell to them.
Not cool, Adobe: Give the Ninite guys a job, not the middle finger
Sysadmin blog Top toolmaker told to stop installing crapware-free Flash
Adobe wants the ability to easily roll out Flash updates removed from Ninite, the sysadmin Swiss army knife. I'm going to explain why this is a terrible thing.
First, though, I would like to discuss the real-world practical uses of products such as Ninite. Ninite is used by systems administrators and ordinary folk alike to …
Are you being robbed of sleep by badly designed servers?
Sysadmin Blog Mornings, nights, they all blur into one for our man Trevor
How should we design the servers and end-user computers of the future?
The construction of my testlab has given me the opportunity to play with technologies I normally wouldn't be able to get my hands on. The "advanced" features in them – standard fare by now for large enterprises – have caused a measure of introspection …
IT Pro confession: How I helped in the BIGGEST DDoS OF ALL TIME
Sysadmin blog Oh Trevor, how could you? Like this
I contributed to the massive DDoS attack against Spamhaus. What flowed through my network wasn't huge - it averaged 500Kbit/sec – but it contributed. This occurred because I made a simple configuration error when setting up a DNS server; it's fixed now, so let's do an autopsy.
The problem
I should start off by apologizing to …
Sysadmins: Let's perch on Microsoft Santa's lap, show him our wish list
Sysadmin Blog Haven't we been good, er, all year?
Griping is easy. Solving problems in an acceptable way is not. I've had a year to chew on what exactly it is about Microsoft's recent moves that bugs me, so it's time to put my money where my mouth is and try to be constructive. Here is my wish list for the next iteration of Windows, offered in the vain hope that someone at …
Microsoft's own code should prevent an Azure SSL fail: So what went wrong?
Sysadmin blog Cloud service fell over despite cert automation in Server 2012
Server 2012 is the Microsoft operating system that, in my opinion, makes cloud computing a reality. As far as I am concerned it is as big a leap over Server 2008 R2 as that OS was over Server 2003. With it you can build anything from a small cluster to a service as big as Microsoft's own Azure platform.
Which is why I am …
Which Linux admin tools and tricks would YOU stake your career on?
Sysadmin blog Sort the signal from the noise - tell us your top utils, books, IRC chans, the lot
Those seeking to enter the rewarding world of Linux system administration can be scared off by the platform's sometimes outright hostility towards the concept of "administrator friendliness".
Linux – and the community that surrounds the open-source OS – can seem intimidating to the uninitiated, but it does not have to be so. To …
