The Lone Sysadmin

Cool, might have to check this out.

"Are you lost in a sea of Edward Cullen's and can't decide which one to download? Are you thinking, "Geez, I wonder if anyone has made an Edward Cullen yet."? Have you been dreaming of making an entire town just of Edward Cullens? Or are you just feeling like if you see yet another Edward Cullen you will implode!? Below are the 140+ Edward Cullen/Robert Pattinson sims made since launch. Click on the picture you like and it will link you to its download page. My favs are by knox and fieryfemale. How about yours?" OMFG.

Apple and AT&T are turning out to be a bunch of bastards. This, coupled with no MMS, coupled with terrible iPhone 3Gs upgrade options, coupled with App Store anti-developer practices make me wonder about the future of the iPhone.

I bet you folks don't work with a world record holder. :-) I've actually been lucky to work with two. Jim Ray, the world's strongest sysadmin, and Joe Detmer, the world's fastest sysadmin (he has, or at least had, a running record in the decathlon).

This happens to me all the time — I've stopped using the Apple In-Ear headphones because of it.

This paragraph reminds me of of my work as a sysadmin, and the general lack of credit sysadmins get when things just work: "This is sort of like fixing a car that has been sitting in a field for 8 years. NASA has this problem — the things that they do are really really hard. And yet often to outsiders it looks relatively easy. But it looks easy because a) they train like crazy, and b) they throw a lot of top resources at it. So they solve these problems fixing the Hubble, but that's because they've been practicing for _years_ and they have 200 people on the ground looking over every procedure. They make it look easy like an Olympic athlete makes it look easy."

This is darn cool.

I'd love to see one of these deer.

A) Props to them for not using Photoshop. B) Quit living in fear, people. Seeing Air Force One should be a really cool moment, and if you'd use your head it would be. It has been for me.

$5 for a 5-user license of Confluence or Jira — that's a great deal if you were looking at getting into wikis or issue tracking. Even if your company is big, if it's just going to be your IT staff, or just as a proof-of-concept for documentation, this cannot be beat.

Fairly interesting, especially from the point of view of law enforcement.

I've heard about Intellipedia before, it's really interesting how they manage it. I like the idea of "shepherds."