Brick O'Lore

The bane of a real sysadmin. I will do anything for uptime. #xkcd #sysadminday #humor pic.twitter.com/SlZ6XQXdm3 — nixCraft (@nixcraft...

I'm so short-sighted ... I never thought about emojis for server names. NMAP totally chokes on scanning machines when the hostname i...

The guys from Packet Pushers have  @AmyEngineer on to talk about going from a technical role to a management position . Some funny (para...

I did some on-line network training and learned about a very powerful tool.

So there was the Star Wars traceroute ... now you can see A New Hope in ASCII via telnet. Telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl.

I'm going to stick this reddit guide to fiber right here , so I can find it later.

I'm trying to learn some Linux, so I've got Ubuntu installed on an old Dell Mini 10v. That seems to be working well. The problem i...

This week my friends have included: fixboot Two XP machines suddenly lost their minds. A little Recovery Console magic got them going a...

I just read  Gough's Tech Flashback: Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Mobile Adapter . I installed a few of those back in the day. He nails it...

So I was doing a little refresher... [Application] All [Presentation] People [Session] Should [Transport] Try [Network] New [Data Lin...

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved. C:\Users\brick>tracert 216.81.59....

Scaling lessons from Google’s CIO — Cloud Computing News : "In the question and answer period that followed, Fried elaborated on thes...

This is a neat idea from Platinum Tools - the RJ45 connector allows the 8 wires to pass through the end. It makes it easier to verify the o...

A Plea to Software Vendors from Sysadmins - 10 Do's and Do Not's I would add #11 - Don't require admin rights on the local mac...