I stumbled across this great beginner’s admin manual on the care and feeding of Cacti, a wonderful RRD-based graphing tool. While Cacti is relatively easy to setup, this little guide would have made the path a little smoother back when I first discovered this gem of an app.
See it here.
Archive for November, 2006
15
Nov
Diggin’ a hole…
Ever feel like digging a hole and crawling in? What if you didn’t stop, where would you end up? Find out! In one of the more creative uses of Google Maps I’ve seen lately, you just choose your location and see where you would end up if you were really productive with your digging efforts.
This marks the 7th year of the SANS top 20 vulnerabilities list, and it is interesting to see the progression through the years. The usual batch of hotfixes and patches abound, but there are a lot of more general technology vulnerabilities discussed such as Phishing, etc.
Check out the list at the SANS website.
DebianAdmin.com has an excellent short How-To article on setting up WPA authentication in Ubuntu. It’s a must read as EVERYONE should be using WPA at a minimum, and until recently it’s been a real pain in the backside to setup easily on Ubuntu. Jump over and take a look!
15
Nov
Oh yeah, I have a blog?!
Wow, talk about neglect. Yet another blog site started and then abandoned for long periods of time. It’s been a busy summer and fall for me and my family as I’m in a new job and geographical location. However, the neglect will be stopping as of now.
I’ll be using this blog as a personal dumping ground for my random thoughts and observations moving forward and hope to add something of interest to the blogosphere. Of course, it will probably just be interesting to me and the assorted crazy and comment spambot… 
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