Disaster Recovery

Far far away, and a few thousand light beers ago, there lived a novice System Administrator named Baja Dey. Baja was in the process of being initated to the world of System Administratorgiri by Dr. Root, his guru and mentor, and an expert from the world of Kyu-nix systems. One fine autumn afternoon, a not-so-innocent [...]

Murumookan Rajave, Mooku Pokki Nadakalle

Came into office after a nice week-long onam vacation. The good food and payasam hangover is going to last a few days… but, the hangover does not account for what happened today. Turned up at office at around 1130 hours, grabbed a dose of caffeine, settled my tashreef on the cold seat, stretched my legs, faced the hibernating PC and [...]

Happy SAAD

Belated happy SAAD really! That’s right, System Administrator Appreciation Day just went by… and I wonder if it was just a coincidence that HJ and I were called in to look at two crashed servers just recently. Now, I haven’t been an SA in a long long time, but for those of you who are [...]

Cluster Maps

Took a cue from karram’s blog and added a Cluster Map here (check bottom – right panel). Well, one might argue how useful hit stats are on a blog that is not even on ad-sense… but must admit, this adds a nice touch to the presentation. Want your own hit map? This should help: http://clustrmaps.com/

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