While in L.A. at SCALE, I attended “Admin++, What root Never Told You,” by Ron Gorodetzky, sysadmin for Digg.com and Revision3. His presentation gave some insight and tidbits on the things you forget when you have your own startup, and the other problems you enounter. Things like scaling, availability, power, managed server, co-location, datacenter etc.. […]

I’m  heading out to Los Angelos for the 5th Annual Southern California Linux Expo. I’ll try and post inbetween sessions (that is… whenever I can). I’ll be attending these talks:

Leveraging the IT Community (This talk is focused on a building a new broad resource for sysadmins by sysadmins. Starting with the concepts […]

McAfee now has thier own wicked custom Mini Cooper! Wow! Special, huh? Black with an ugly white/red sticker on the hood and doors. It looks wild and fast just sitting still like that!
Come on McAfee, you can do better than that. Where’s the paint job? or at least a custom license plate? Hahaha.

Pretty funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4FF_aT_mE8

Linus released kernel v2.6.20 (tar.bz2) to the public today, adding virtualization support through KVM and relocatable kernel support for x86, among other changes. The latter feature is an interesting one from a security perspective and for kdump users. From the changelog:
Relocatable kernel support for x86
This feature (enabled with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE) isn’t very noticeable for end-users but […]