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NUC NUC. Who's there? It's Intel, with a pint-sized 8-core Xeon workstation
Oh mother! Broken compute board? Just slot a new one in
06 May 2020 10:30 | 39
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This Damn War
*Thunk* No worries, the UPS should spin up. Oh cool, it's in bypass mode
Power outage and no Plan B – hilarity ensues
05 Apr 2018 08:32 | 104
Virtualization
You can survive the migration from Windows vCenter server
The promised land of VCSA – time to start packing
05 Mar 2018 09:34 | 13
Virtualization
STOP! It's dangerous to upgrade to VMware 6.5 alone. Read this
Please don't be like the admin who failed to update PSC first
25 Jan 2018 09:04 | 39
On-Prem
Stick to the script, kiddies: Some dos and don'ts for the workplace
Get your filthy, fallible hands out of filthy, fallible Github
23 Nov 2017 09:05 | 66
Sponsored
Pesky users! They're always compromising endpoints! Security baked into silicon helps
Intel chippery tech mitigates the most careless of workers
25 Sep 2017 08:21 |
SaaS
Cloud may be the future, but it ain't all sunshine and rainbows
Learning lessons the hard way so you don't have to
21 Jun 2017 09:01 | 9
SaaS
Cloud eye for the sysadmin guy: Get tooled up proper, like
How to weather the storm
06 Jun 2017 10:07 | 16
Blog
You deleted the customer. What now? Human error - deal with it
To err is human, to double err is career limiting
30 May 2016 09:00 | 67
Security
Hacked in a public space? Thanks, HTTPS
Kali Linux, laptop, coffee - hack on!
20 May 2016 11:05 | 96
Devops
Big, fat fail? Here's how to avoid that: Microservices and you
Time to start acting 'small'
16 Feb 2016 10:56 | 30
Virtualization
Photon taster: Flirting with VMware's CoreOS gambit
New frontiers in containers?
15 Jan 2016 12:45 | 3
Comment
Working with Asperger's in tech: We're in this together
Practical approach to behaving, saying and doing
09 Nov 2015 11:02 | 77
Channel
Let’s hear it for data scientists! Making our lives more and more frictionless
And helping online floggers shift tat. If you want the rainbow …
24 Sep 2015 14:14 | 14
Devops
Modernise and prosper: It's time to imbibe server orchestration
Live long by transporting what you know to a virtual environment
11 Sep 2015 10:59 | 3
Security
Attention sysadmins! Here’s how to dodge bullets in a post-Ashley Madison world
You've no time to get lazy
07 Sep 2015 09:02 | 69
Security
Security for those who know they can't win the security war
Because nothing beats jail time. Or a spanner
27 Aug 2015 09:05 | 33
Comment
Windows 10 marks the end of 'pay once, use forever' software
Welcome to Microsoft's pay-pay-pay plan
31 Jul 2015 17:21 | 180
Software
Run Windows 10 on your existing PC you say, Microsoft? Hmmm.
Believe it or not, torching existing stock and starting over may work out cheaper
15 Jul 2015 10:37 | 150
Comment
Summer breeze makes IT fine, blowing through sysadmins in my mind
Taking a break from those never-ending help tickets
09 Jul 2015 09:01 | 9
Science
Goodbye Vulcan: Blighty's nuclear bomber retires for the last time
Grand old warhorse finally out to grass – last chance to see
01 Jul 2015 10:03 | 148
On-Prem
The wonderful madness of metrics: Different things to different folk
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and verify
23 Jun 2015 16:54 | 14
On-Prem
Data AWOL? Thank God for backup. You backed up, right?
Exposing the hidden crisis of the virtual age
18 Jun 2015 11:01 | 15
Virtualization
Virty servers' independence promise has been betrayed
The rise of the fake cluster - and management indifference
08 Jun 2015 15:31 | 13
On-Prem
A world of conferences beckons for the Apple sysadmin
Which is right for you?
07 May 2015 02:03 | 6
On-Prem
Excessively fat virtual worlds – come on, it's your guilty secret
Does my server look big in this?
22 Apr 2015 11:17 | 10
On-Prem
Are YOU The One? Become a guru of your chosen sysadmin path
Deeper than training, knowing yourself
17 Apr 2015 11:58 | 15
On-Prem
Learn yourself hireable: Top tips for improving your tech appeal
No time? No budget? No problem – get yourself skilled up
13 Apr 2015 10:31 | 22
On-Prem
One day all this could be yours: Be Facebook, without being Facebook
The pros and cons of Open Compute
30 Mar 2015 14:05 | 6
Security
Sysadmins: Step away from the Big Mac. No more Heartbleed-style 2am patch dashes
6 steps to a saner patching regime
04 Mar 2015 01:17 | 12
Personal Tech
Reg man confesses: I took my wife out to choose a laptop for Xmas. NOOOO
It may be a lovely orange but a Chromebook is NOT a PC
25 Dec 2014 09:00 | 142
Review
Tough Banana Pi: a Raspberry Pi for colour-blind diehards
Wi-Fi? Check. SATA 2 port? Check. Screen - Ow, my eyes!
28 Nov 2014 12:42 | 75
OSes
Social misfits and group interviews: Yup, it's the startup interview circuit
Why it's not always you who'll do the rejecting
25 Nov 2014 09:02 | 6
SaaS
Bang! You're dead. Who gets your email, iTunes and Facebook?
Death and the medium
19 Nov 2014 15:01 | 84
Networks
YOU are the threat: True confessions of real-life sysadmins
Who will save the systems from the men and women who save the systems from you?
19 Nov 2014 10:04 | 75
OSes
Words to put dread in a sysadmin's heart: 'We are moving our cloud from Windows to Linux'
If you must pick Windows, pick early and stick
10 Nov 2014 10:02 | 62
Networks
BYOD: don't let the dream turn into a nightmare
Take back control
06 Nov 2014 13:36 | 30
Comment
Inside the EYE of the TORnado: From Navy spooks to Silk Road
It's hard enough to peel the onion, are you hard enough to eat the core?
29 Oct 2014 10:03 | 28
SaaS
Make life easy for yourself when you move to the cloud
Know what you really, really want
17 Oct 2014 10:05 | 4
Servers
Keep a beady eye on your business's cloud service shopping
Don't let staff go crazy
16 Oct 2014 15:41 | 3
SaaS
Got your NUDE SELFIES in the cloud? Two-factor auth's your best bet for securing them
Infosec made simple: 2FA, its good points and bad points
16 Sep 2014 16:32 | 45
Servers
Pay to play: The hidden cost of software defined everything
Enter credit card details if you want that system you bought to actually be useful
28 Aug 2014 08:02 | 76
Legal
You've been arrested for computer crime: Here's what happens next
The knock on the door you REALLY don't want to hear
07 Nov 2013 10:03 | 158
On-Prem
Techies with Asperger's? Yes, we are a little different...
Solving fiendishly intricate tech problems? Love it. Office politics and subtext? No thanks
08 Oct 2013 09:03 | 194
