Being a sysadmin does come with its ups and down. It’s not a job which comes with glory or fame. When things work no one even remembers to give you a pat in the back. You only hear from them when things go wrong (+ It won’t get you laid or score you high with the girls 
). You get to spend countless hours dealing with “me myself and I” users who always seem to have issues that can escalate to bringing the world as we know it to an end if not promptly attended to. The pay is bad and the work hours are long. Simply put system administration is a job for those who love and have a passion for administering computers and their users. (more…)
Why You Should Never Steal From a Linux Admin
Monday, July 26th, 2010How to safely remove PPA Repository from Ubuntu
Sunday, January 10th, 2010We sometimes find what we are looking for while searching for something completely different. This happened to me recently. I was searching for a way to fix some graphic performance issues being experienced on kubuntu, when I stumbled upon (no pun intended) a packaged named ppa-purge. (more…)
KeePassX: Cross Platform Password Manager for Linux
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010Someone once told me that any password you can remember off hand, is most likely a weak password. Even though this is by no means fool proof, it is often advised to use passwords made up of combinations of 
numbers, letters and special characters. It is also good practice to use different passwords for different accounts i.e your email, PC, Facebook etc should all have different passwords.
Now if you are like me and always find it hard to create a strong enough password. My situation is also made worse by the fact that I work as a System Administrator which means I get to maintain lots of administrative passwords for many mission critical systems at work. throw in my blog, 4 emails address. over 20 forum account, 2 Micro- blogging accounts and 5 IM accounts, and it wont take a genius to know that I would be needing a password manager which would among other things allow me to create strong passwords, and store my passwords in a safe and encrypted format. I did a little research and settled for (more…)
