XKCD #705 – Devotion to Duty (Sysadmins)

March 2nd, 2010
XKCD.com #705 - Devotion to Duty

XKCD.com #705 - Devotion to Duty

 

Copying Maildir Contents

July 6th, 2009

  I’ve got a bunch of mails (in Maildir format) to move from one server to another. Only problem is that there’s lots of them (60 accounts in 5 different domains, 70GB total). I’m trying to dip my toe in the waters of shell scripting but am a bit lost. If anyone can help out I’ [ ... ]

Survey – Final Week

July 13th, 2007

  Well, the response to the survey has been great. As of today I’ve had 195 responses Thanks to all who have taken part. There’s another week left so I’m going to send it on to some US lugs to get a few more responses. Whew, there is a load of lugs in the US! Gonna [...] [ ... ]

Open Office Deployment

June 26th, 2007

  Trawling through the Open Source Academy’s mass of information I came across this gem of goodness. It’s essentially documentation and an implementation guide drawn up by Bristol City Council in the U.K. for rolling out Open Office in their organisation. This is vital reading for anyone i [ ... ]

Open Source <> Franchising

June 22nd, 2007

  Two subjects close to my heart at the minute. I’m currently doing a dissertation for my Masters degre (MscMIS) on the topic of franchising as a method of providing an optimal delivery model for services to the SME sector. One of the key anchors of the paper is an investigation of some of the t [ ... ]

itSMF

June 21st, 2007

  Just joined this organisation, looking promising. They are charged with promoting ITIL standards in Ireland. The IT Service Management Forum Ireland. itSMF Ireland is a forum for Information Technology professionals to explore methods of continually improving the delivery of IT services. The forum a [ ... ]