100: The First Rule of System Administration – Michael W Lucas
from the FreeBSD Journal "Letters" column| 60 Seconds of WIP
The N4SA2e production process is proceeding apace. The print books are finalized. Books for me to sign have been ordered. The printer tells me that they’ll ship to me in about 10 days. When the printer tells me they’ve shipped, I will prepare shipping labels for Patronizers, sponsors, and Kickstarter backers. You getting an email … Continue reading "N4SA2e Fulfillment Status"| Michael W Lucas
Here’s a tidbit from the backers-only special edition of Networking for System Administrators. All those shrooms were one interconnected, internally networked living thing. Networked. Sort of like computers. Except mushroom networks are efficient. The nodes eliminate interoperability issues by requiring identical hardware and a fully patched ShroomOS. The Internet would be infinitely better if every … Continue reading "105: A Fully Patched ShroomOS"| Michael W Lucas
“Trust” seems to be a recurrent theme of the OpenZFS book. Here we discuss so-called hardware RAID. All RAID is software RAID. Your hardware RAID controller runs a custom operating system to perform RAID tasks, and in the process obscures the storage hardware from the operating system. This made sense back in the early days … Continue reading "104: Software RAID on Windows 3.1"| Michael W Lucas
Anywhere from 1%-5% of sponsors move before I ship print sponsor gifts. (Yes, they’re gifts, not preorders. Because I send sponsors things.) In the past, I’ve eaten the cost of reshipping these. With hundreds of print sponsors, that small error rate becomes an expensive pile.| Michael W Lucas
Last week’s episode was called on account of covid. My brain is only lightly friend today, so here’s a bit of OpenZFS Mastery. Storage is a sysadmin’s natural enemy. You might think it’s management, but some folks touch computers for fun. Similarly, not all sysadmins have users other than themselves. Most computer hardware is fairly … Continue reading "103: We Can’t Trust"| Michael W Lucas
Last chance to get the special edition outside of charity auctions. Reader TC sent me this, and I feel obliged to suggest you tag yourself. I’m bottom left.| Michael W Lucas
If you back the campaign, you also get copies of FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS and SSH Mastery. I wouldn’t be shocked to break the $ git commit murder stretch goal. I would be surprised to break the Advanced ZFS goal. Plus there’s the online “launch party,” which is a highfalutin’ way to say “I’ll open a … Continue reading "“Networking for System Administrators” Kickstarter closing soon"| Michael W Lucas
This post goes to Patronizers in September and becomes public in October. Not a Patronizer? You could be! $12 a year gets you my latest updates, occasional free tidbits, and the completely pointless MWL Footnote Fortune File. Operation Acclimate To Mac proceeds apace. So does Project Math The Networking for System Administrators Kickstarter. The Mac … Continue reading "September’s Stillicidious Sausage"| Michael W Lucas
I’m at EuroBSDCon in Croatia teaching TLS and SMTP, so here’s a snippet from my TLS tutorial. Let’s say I create a public key pair. I keep one key of the pair. The other key I give to my chief goon, Vizzini, before I dispatch him out into the world. Nobody else has either of … Continue reading "102: My Chief Goon"| Michael W Lucas
The Networking for System Administrators Kickstarter is running full steam ahead, so I’m making words on OpenZFS Mastery. It’s a second edition of FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS and FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS, but a single large volume also covering Linux. ZFS support in Linux distributions varies. The broader Linux community questions the compatibility between the GPL … Continue reading "101: The Hearing’s Gonna Be Lit"| Michael W Lucas
from the FreeBSD Journal "Letters" column| 60 Seconds of WIP
This post goes to Patronizers in July and becomes public in August. Not a Patronizer? You could be! $12 a year gets you my latest updates, occasional free tidbits, and the completely pointless MWL Footnote Fortune File.| Michael W Lucas
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