Homage to Icarus

I’m set­ting up an iso­lated net­work for peo­ple to test inter­nal appli­ca­tions on, since the devel­op­ers all have Sun work­sta­tions with a dual-port Gigabit NIC on the moth­er­board, and we’ve got a bunch of older net­work equip­ment that we haven’t got­ten around to eBay­ing yet. What I’m doing is link­ing the sec­ond NICs together with […]

[There’s a whole bunch of mean­der­ing aca­d­e­mic pon­tif­i­cat­ing and me tak­ing myself too seri­ously. About two thirds of the way down it gets really good, though. I promise. Also, the woman is now online and back in school. –JC]
So appar­ently, some­one was try­ing to take online courses, ordered the cheap­est Dell with a CD  —  which happens […]

As it turns out I have need for another Systems Administrator, this time in Washington, DC. This job is for a local admin­is­tra­tor to han­dle the day-to-day sup­port and activ­i­ties in the Washington office (com­plete with AD domain, Asterisk server, NAS, and a dozen users), as well as the four branch loca­tions in the DC […]

Aside from the laugh­able idea of “mil­i­tantly” sup­port­ing any­thing with a blog post, Miguel sim­ply noted that these peo­ple exist, have writ­ten a book, and will be doing the speaking-tour-thing near him. Does he agree with the con­tents? (shakes eight-ball) Signs point to Yes.
Is he free to do so? Also yes.
Are you free to ignore him? Still yes.
Does […]