Robert's Sysadmin Blog

Sysadmins on Twitter, lack of groups and Seesmic issues

So I have been trying to find and add other System Adminitrators on both Twitter and Friendfeed. I am a bit picky though. I looked for people that seemed to Tweet at least some of the time about their work, tweeted regularly, and in English. Also preffering Windows Sysadmins over Unix for now, but I might reconsidder that. So far the results have been good, and with results I mean that I can get little conversations going about tech stuff. What I would love to see happen at some point, is a discussion...

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Where are all the Sysadmins?

I posted the following post on The Server Room forum at Ars Technica ————————————————————— Hi all,Maybe I just haven't looked hard enough, but I get the distinct impression that sysadmins, for some reason, are not very community-oriented. If you look online for developer communities, you find a fantastic amount of forums, websites, and blogging communities. When I wanted to start blogging about my sysadmin adventures, I looked for communities similar to developer sites like geekswithblogs.net, Channel9,...

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Joi Ito on WoW

Presentation given by Joi Ito at the 23rd Chaos Communications Congress on World of Warcraft. Joi is an unfluential blogger and Entrepeneur, and also a guild leader of the Guild ‘’We know’’, which has many such people from the blogosphere and tech industry in it. I thought it was very very good, also quite humorous to watch if you are a WoW player. The greater point he is trying to convey though is how MMO’s are increasinlgy becoming a proxy for real life, and a new...

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Changes to where i post

I have recently have the urge to post maily about personal things. I feel that geekswithblogs.net is not the place for these kind of posts. I share Jeff and John’s wish to make this site becomes an ever increasing valuable resource to the IT community. Purely personal posts may detract from that goal. So therefore, I will from now on only be using my Geekswithblogs blog to post on technical matters, which is mostly IT Professional / Sysadmin related. My personal posting can be found on the...

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Pure Pwnage Episode 9 Dutch Screening

So last night was the advanced screening of Pure Pwnage Episode 9, organised by my m8 Skrie, who is quite well known on the Pure Pwnage forums. About 50 people turned up, and some of the well known forum peeps stayed overnight. Several hundred people apparently turned up at the Toronto screening!Overall it was a great success, and a testiment to how popular Pure Pwnage is becoming in the gaming community worldwide. ...

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Geotagging my pictures

So I have begun geotagging some of my photo’s on FLickr! Since I dont have any kind of GPS device, and certainly non built into my camera, I have to add the Londitude and Latitude manually. Thankfully, this process had been made rather easy by Geotagging community, who are centered around geobloggers.com In partular the greasemonkey scripts and web-services by Steeev are the ideal way of adding geo info to your pictures, you can basicly use google maps or google earth to tag foto’s in...

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Geekswithblogs has its own podcast! Very Exiting!

PodcastStudio.net Show is live! Hosted by Jeff Julian and John Alexander, who host and run the Geekswithblogs.net blogging community, and where of course my own main blog is. Not only have they started a podcast about Geekswithblogs and its members, they are also setting up a podcasting service for members to use. Its a great community building effort they have started here, and I feel privileged to be a small part of it! Subscribe to the feed here, and keep your eye on http://podcaststudio.net/...

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How to setup IIS, PostToSpaces and Blogjet to post to MSN Spaces

Robin Curry has posted a follow-up on his PostToSpaces webservice, here he explains how to get Blogjet working with it. http://www.robincurry.org/b... Me and Dmitry Chestnykh (creator of Blogjet) also spent some time on this, and got it woking also, as I had posted about earlier. Personally, I had never really installed a webservice manually before, and it took me some doing to figure out all the steps, so I thought the community might be served if I wrote my own little...

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Grid Thinking

Grid Thinking My friend Maarten has had this project going for some time now, I didnt even know about it Its kinda hard to summorize what he is trying to do, i think it can be best described as a particapatory collaboration and data disssemenation platform. Can you tell he was enspired by EPIC? Some quotes from his Grid Thinking blog, which he seems to be using as a scratchpad for his thoughts more than anything else at the moment: For the past year i'm loaded with thoughts due to what’s happening...

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Xs4all.nl uprades to Community Server

Community Server :: Blogs Before I came here, I started my blog over at my own ISP’s blogging service, that they had started on .text (my ISP is very very cool by the way). A few days ago Blogjet started giving errors on posting to it, and now I see why.. they have upgraded :D We cant login yet, I expect they will now make the authentication passthrough so I can use my regular account info, and they still need to clean up some of the template code.. my own blog looks b0rked http://blogs.xs4all.nl/blog...

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Bumping into cool Agile tools

Currently, I am on one of those really standard tasks in a migration process: Software Intake. My role in this is writing application installation instructions for the helpdesk (or for packaging), whereafter these instructions are tested and then approved by the key-user. Now generally, I considder this rather boring an tedious work, however, you get to be exposed to a very large array of different software, which I do find usefull. I often learn a lot about what kind of software is out there during...

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ITT: Troubleshooting some (common?) SBS 2003 issues I came across

Today I am at a customer again, for whome I had set up their first network and domain, based on Microsoft Small Business Server 2003.They have called me in today to solve some of the 'critical errors' their SBS server is giving them. Because they seem to be pretty generic, and probably common errors, I thought a ITT blog post might be cool, so I will be formating this post as a kind of 'dairy' of the day.(The SBS installation is in Dutch, so I am forced to traslate errors ad-hoc, I try to name by...

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HNS - A Simple Guide to Securing USB Memory Sticks - Cryptainer LE

HNS - A Simple Guide to Securing USB Memory SticksHow Cryptainer LE WorksCryptainer LE functions as a driver for Win32 systems that allows the operating system to view a single encrypted file as a virtual disk. Essentially, once the virtual disk is mounted it is available to Windows just as if it were any other type of disk. A small program is required to mount the encrypted disk and that program can be included on the USB memory stick as well. The portable version does not require installation and...

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My recent and future blog usage - "Action Blogging"

Usage of my blog has been sporadic the past few weeks. This is mostly due to not being able to effectively blog at work, because for some reason, Blogjet is not able to communicate properly through our proxy. Probably for the same reason RSS Bandit wont collect feeds here, so I use Bloglines for my RSS browsing at work now. I have actually opened a call on the issue, and the network guys will be looking into it when they can; I told them it was ultra low priorty. But the guy agreed that if it was...

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Update to the Technet "whats new" page.

Here was a cool resonce I got from the technet team, regarding RSS feeds of technets "whats new" page.I really hope they expedite their roleout of RSS support througout the Technet site, though I must say, a quick browse though some of the MS IT Pro community sites shows quite a lot of synticated content! Cool.. time to add some feeds! --------------------Hello, Thank you for your inquiry on our plans to add an RSS feed for TechNet update notifications. As you may know, we already offer RSS feeds...

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Bittorrent, the ideal podcast distribution method.

Giving back to the community.The Evilgenious Chronicles is one of the only Podcast to distribute using Bittorrent, and I am more than happy to keep a seed up for a few days on the server.

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And in the other world: Have you heard of blogs?

You know.. it amazes me how often I have to explain to fellow techies what a blog is. Just ordinary non-technical people.. oke.. fine.. but my fellow geeks?I dont know how it is over there in the states, or the rest of the world, but here in the Netherlands its a pretty unknown fenomenon. Its worlds and worlds appart from the online world that I inhabit, where I read and participate daily on stuff like; the inpact of blogs and personalized reporting, rss (spam), backtracks, corperate blogging, podcasting,...

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Bugfix fot .text - metaWeblog.getRecentPosts (Invalid Cast Specified)

Hi Jeff, There appears to be a bugfix out for .text .95 that fixes the way .text handles the metaWeblog.getRecentPosts property. This bug was preventing certain blogging tools from properly reposting blog posts, in my case, Blogjet:http://blogjet.com/... Apart from the link above, more info and download can be found here: http://devninja.net/archive... http://www.sagetechnology.c... you can...

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Bloggercon III session - Newbies : Excellent listen, my comments and my own thoughts on blogging tools and trackback

http://www.itconversations.... to the newbies session of Bloggercon III, hosted by Rebecca Mackinnon, hosted by IT ConversationsI have only gotten halfway through it, due to being interupted by arriving at work.. *grumble* . but I found the first half of this session extremely intersting and thought-provoking.I have some comments on it so far. First off, it seemed to be that there was not much clarity about the difference between hosted blogging services, such as, for...

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My Favorite Podcasts - Good place to start!

This list is for Tejas, in responce to his post, but anyone may find it usefull.Here is a list of my favorite podcasts, most are of higher-quality than others, but I find them all interesting! You need to, at the very least, listen to AdamCurry's Daily Source Code. Its has a high production value, and is leading the way for everyone else, almost everyone in podcasting registers to his feed. Adam Curry: The Daily Source CodeRss: http://radio.weblogs.com/00...

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Podcasting - Another cool thing I (and everyone else) just discovered

Title: Podcasting - Another cool thing I (and everyone else) just discoveredDate: 10/10/2004 3:40:00 AMFirst thing first: Here is a link to a small tutorial by Jake Ludington on how to set up Ipodder and Media Player 10 to get you started with easily listening to podcasting on the Windows platform. http://www.jakeludington.co... I missed this.. perhaps not that suprising considdering no one was talking about it since just a week or so ago.. at least according to my feed...

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Taking computer insecurity seriously

BBC NEWS | Technology | Taking computer insecurity seriously(on the effects of the Latest Windows flaw, that can cause jpg image files to execute arbitrary code under the users context, and on the wider implications of security management in the user community) Bill Thomson latest column on the BBC news site, once again, parrallels my own thought on the matter. The exerpt below certainly caught my attention. "We need to do something about this, if only for selfish reasons. For while we shouldn't...

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First post - and a short introduction

Hello everyone. This is my first post at Geekswithblogs.net, and I am happy to be here. Just a little introduction: My name is Robert, (But I prefer my nick Jemimus), and I am a 25 year old system administrator, working for an IT services company in The Hague, Netherlands.In my job I am frequently doing jobs and assignments for customers for short projects or for longer periods. I have previously been posting at http://blogger.xs4all.nl/je... but my largely technical posts are a little out of...

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