Women Now Need Special Books for Learning IT Things
I must have missed the memo on this, but us gals apparently now have special books and training courses targeted at our fragile lady brains. I’m so glad these gentlemen took the Read More …
I’m Going to Tell You About Web Hosting
After some consideration, I decided to remove the original text of this post, which is something I’ve never felt compelled to do on my own site before. We all have those “well, Read More …
Beliefs That Make Most Security “Experts” Idiots
In my line of work I deal with a lot of ridiculous bullshit, especially from customers and Jr. sys admins acting like they know the lay of the land because Read More …
What It’s Actually Like Having Female Parts and Working in IT
I’m aware of some organizations out there, of course run mostly by women, that try to focus on helping women get more jobs in certain types of industries. Organizations like this, Read More …
Resolving Duplicate glibc Packages on a CentOS Server
Here’s an unusual one – yum crashed in the middle of an update and somehow recorded multiple versions of glibc and glibc-common being installed, preventing Yum from updating: [root@server ~]# Read More …
BetterLinux is Gracefully Shutting Down
About two years after BetterLinux was released, they announced this morning that they are closing their doors: “Effective immediately we are discontinuing future signups to BetterLinux and have adjusted all Read More …
Zamfoo Sucks and You Shouldn’t Use It
If you’re one of the more fortunate ones that has not been exposed (in all meanings of the word) to Zamfoo, it’s a suite of plugins that integrates with cPanel/WHM Read More …
cPanel Security Advisor: Don’t Take it to Heart
cPanel 11.40 introduces a new feature in WHM called “Security Advisor“. I don’t mess with WHM a lot so while I was vaguely aware that such a feature existed in Read More …
Spike TV’s “World’s Worst Tenants”, Absolutely Fake
I’m not a huge reality TV fan, but a few days ago I stumbled across a show called “World’s Worst Tenants” on Spike TV, and admittedly I got a little Read More …
Basic Fun with IPs in PHP
I was working on an application a couple weeks ago that required the ability to extract data about an IP range when only a CIDR is provider. Of course I Read More …