System Administration

Learn how to enable PowerShell remoting over SSH today using /N software's NetCmdlets V2.0, without waiting for Microsoft's native implementation.

Using bash's $RANDOM variable to shuffle lines in a file with a simple one-liner.

A hard drive failed, but RAID 1 saved the day—here's how to recover and rebuild without losing anything.

Upgraded WordPress to version 2.3 with a smooth database migration. Akismet has blocked nearly 16,000 spam comments so far.

Explore how VMware VProbes brings DTrace-like instrumentation to virtual machines, enabling deep system diagnostics across OS kernels and the hypervisor itself.

Troubleshooting CPAN module installation on Solaris Perl and understanding compiler compatibility issues with different Perl distributions.

Backing up your website files to Amazon S3 using Brackup, a Perl-based backup script that handles redundancy and scaling automatically.

Convert a floppy disk image to an ISO file so you can burn it to CD. Works on Solaris and Linux using loopback mounting and mkisofs.

Understanding how system layers interact is what separates good system administration from software development's abstraction-heavy approach.