More Help Wanted

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 […]

The Fool's Only Teacher 3

Sometimes life works. Other times it doesn’t. Hopefully you get to the point where you can spot the “doesn’t” parts in advance… If you’re lucky enough to get a technical person calling you in for the interview, remember to ask about a dress-code range. It’s uncomfortable to be pimping a suit when the guy who […]

The Fool's Only Teacher II

Hopefully, this can be turned into a running gag series. SBS Server 2003 Standard Edition sucks. Either get Premium or just eschew SBS altogether. I’ll take a wiki over SharePoint anyday. Supposedly, Kerberos authentication between an Apache virtual host and an ActiveDirectory domain is impossible. However, mod_auth_pam and pam_krb5 are not only easier to setup, […]

The Fool's Only Teacher

When writing NUnit test suites for C#, make sure the TestFixture classes are explicitly declared “public” (this is because classes are declared “internal” by default—and is really only an issue in VS2005 because it no longer adds the “public” when you create a class via “Add Item”). The Quickbooks 2006 DB service does not like […]

Perspectives

There’s a real cultural difference between *NIX (Linux, Solaris, etc.) administrators and their Windows counterparts. To Windows administrators, when one application makes some unrelated part of the system go daffy, it’s the application’s fault. To Unix administrators, when one application makes some unrelated part of the system go daffy, it’s the either the system’s fault […]