Introduction: When Classes End, Trouble Begins Anyone old enough to remember Scorched Earth? The old DOS artillery game where two tiny combatants spent an unreasonable amount of time trying to calculate the exact angle needed to ruin somebody else’s afternoon? The one where terrain got destroyed, shots missed spectacularly, and friendships were tested over bad aim and questionable judgment? Yes.
Category: System Administration
Starting Chapter 7 I’m starting Chapter 7 on Mastering Linux Administration, and this is where things begin to feel different. Up to this point, working in Linux feels contained. You install software, manage files, and run commands on your own machine. Everything stays local and predictable. It feels like you are in control of a single system. But networking changes
Let’s get something straight right away. I’m your sysadmin. We are not friends. This is not hostility. It’s just clarity. In most jobs people expect warmth, camaraderie, the occasional lunch conversation about weekend plans. In systems administration, the relationship is a little different. My job is not to be socially available. My job is to make sure the systems keep
The Honest Truth Nobody Puts on LinkedIn A job in IT is not sexy. It never has been. The public image of technology is full of glossy nonsense. Startup founders giving interviews. Developers dramatically typing code on giant screens. Silicon Valley billionaires talking about “changing the world.” But the reality of working in IT looks nothing like that. It looks
Spring break is upon us. So what does a grad student and full-time IT administrator do when escaping the usual cycle of late nights, research papers, production systems, and those mysterious alerts that only happen at 2:17 AM? We game. Because after weeks of debugging networks, writing GIS papers, and explaining (again) that yes, rebooting sometimes fixes things, the only
It’s been a while since I posted about Linux, or networking, for that matter. Between grad school and work projects, blogging about networking and Linux kinda took a back seat. But I’m still working on improving my networking and Linux chops, along with everything else. The learning never really stops… yay. (Yes, I am somewhat still able to find gaps