Category: Lessons Learned


Designing Towards The User

Any Systems Administrator who hasn’t heard of Tom Limoncelli should probably do some reading. His latest blog post ‘Gorillas in the Mist’ or ‘Sysadmins at the Keyboard’? over at Everything Sysadmin talks about how sometimes the time spent on designing a product or interface could have been better spent if the organization had just spoken …

Recent Twitter Related Learning

I’ve been using Twitter for a few weeks now and am starting to get used to some of the concepts. I have since also been reminded of a little of the RTFM concept mixed with the takes the experts with a grain of salt. I started out reading some information given by Brent Ozar on …

Checking For A DoS

Working on groups of web servers, especially ones that are highly susceptible to attack, it is a good idea to have a string of commands that will allow you to check what is going on. Check for DDos: 1netstat -n | grep EST | awk '{ print $5 }' | cut -d: -f1 | sort …

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