Creator of the Unix Sysadmin Song explains he just wanted to liven up a textbook
When you get to Chapter 15 of a Unix book you're ready for a laugh
Sysadmin Month28 Jul 2023 | 17
Sysadmin Month
From tools, data security practices, network troubleshooting, server virtualization insights, backup strategies, performance optimization techniques, user management, cloud guidance, automation and scripting and more, tune in all month.
Sysadmins are being left out of AI implementation
Sounds to us like the beginning of an entertaining, but tragic, Who Me tale
Sysadmin Month28 Jul 2023 | 33
Oracle's revised Java licensing terms 2-5x more expensive for most orgs
One in five users can expect an audit in the next three years
Sysadmin Month24 Jul 2023 | 81
Google toys with internet air-gap for some staff PCs
Fewer than 2% of workstations will be cut off in 'experiment'
Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 69
Energy efficiency, staffing keep datacenter operators awake at night
Outages are declining, but when one does hit, it's expensive
Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 7
Antitrust clouds continue to gather over Microsoft's European business
Regional trade group applies to partake in Germany's probe of Redmond's cloud software policies
Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 6
AI maybe on everyone's lips, but it's not what's driving IT spending
Software expected to top $1 trillion next year, according to analysts
Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 11
JumpCloud says 'nation state' gang hit some customers
Updated Enough to make you hopping mad
Sysadmin Month18 Jul 2023 | 4
Microsoft 'fesses to code blunder in Azure Container Apps
Misconfiguration led to hours of pain for engineers as bootstrap service caught in a loop
Sysadmin Month18 Jul 2023 | 13
Typo watch: 'Millions of emails' for US military sent to .ml addresses in error
Good thing Mali isn't best pals with Russia right no– oh, shoot
Sysadmin Month18 Jul 2023 | 151
Goodbye Azure AD, Entra the drag on your time and money
Opinion Relic of the Ballmer years, we shall not see such marketing nonsense again… oh, hang on
Sysadmin Month17 Jul 2023 | 51
Network died, hard, during company Christmas party, leaving lone techie to fix it
Who, me? Yippee-ki-yay, other sockets!
Sysadmin Month17 Jul 2023 | 38
Microsoft's security roadmap: Protect secrets in Azure DevOps
You can’t steal what you can’t access ... we hope
Sysadmin Month16 Jul 2023 | 2
Why do cloud titans keep building datacenters in America's hottest city?
100 days over 100F and historic drought don't faze Microsoft or Google
Sysadmin Month15 Jul 2023 | 73
Teradata introduces LLMs to predictive analytics
But the outcome is far from certain
Sysadmin Month14 Jul 2023 | 4
Bizarre backup taught techie to dumb things down for the boss
On Call Response to taking out the trash rubbished a reputation
Sysadmin Month14 Jul 2023 | 260
Microsoft admits unauthorized access to Exchange Online, blames Chinese gang
Storm-0558 had access to customer accounts and mail – maybe even for senior US officials
Sysadmin Month13 Jul 2023 | 36
Microsoft whips up unrest after revealing Azure AD name change
Ditching it after a decade? Devs warn of the hours to correct documentation and chaos it'll cause
Sysadmin Month12 Jul 2023 | 130
SUSE announces its own RHEL-compatible distro... again
The chameleon-rancher chooses a new, Rocky course
Sysadmin Month12 Jul 2023 | 25
VMware teases multi-cloud generative AI offerings for August debut
Data here, model there, Virtzilla’s usual abstraction principles in between
Sysadmin Month12 Jul 2023 |
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OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries
The S in LLM stands for Security
Donald Trump proposes US government acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service
Incoming president promises to allow ongoing operations for 90 days just as made-in-China app started to go dark
How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish
Opinion Clear rules and guaranteed consequences concentrate the mind wonderfully. Just ask a Russian
Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic
Infosec in brief PLUS: Allstate sued for allegedly tracking drivers; Dutch DDoS; More fake jobs from Pyongyang; and more
Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account?
Who, Me? A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble
Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior
'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs
When food delivery apps reached Indonesia, everyone put on weight
Asia In Brief PLUS: Salt Typhoon and IT worker scammers sanctioned; Alibaba Cloud’s K8s go global; Amazon acquires Indian BNPL company
Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors
Students have work to complete at home in the meantime
Where does Microsoft's NPU obsession leave Nvidia's AI PC ambitions?
Comment While Microsoft pushes AI PC experiences, Nvidia is busy wooing developers
Trump's freshly minted meme coin passes $10B market cap
Crypto critics unhappy as BTC hits all-time high and Melania launches her own currency
STORIES
Tech execs turn to drink and drugs as job losses mount
34% of those surveyed are on stimulants including amphetamines
Sysadmin Month11 Jul 2023 | 32
Let's have a chat about Java licensing, says unsolicited Oracle email
Exclusive Don't tell Big Red too much, experts advise
Sysadmin Month05 Jul 2023 | 73
No open door for India's tech workers in any UK trade deal
Both countries want it, but respective red lines could torpedo an agreement
Sysadmin Month04 Jul 2023 | 219
Microsoft signs 1.5 million seat contract for Office 365 and more
$940m agreement with one of world's largest employers is value for money, we are assured
Sysadmin Month30 Jun 2023 | 49
This Windows update is snarling up some endpoint security tools
Malwarebytes and Trellix upgrades to the rescue
Sysadmin Month29 Jun 2023 | 9
The death of the sysadmin has been predicted for years – we're not holding our breath
Register Kettle We'd sure like to see a bot unpick a failed update or handle users struggling to find the 'any' key
Sysadmin Month28 Jun 2023 | 44
Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI
Opinion Time to get with the program... before artificial intelligence does
Sysadmin Month23 Jun 2023 | 97
Small custom AI models are cheap to train and can keep data private, says startup
Interview We talk to MosaicML, a startup driving down training costs with open source models
Sysadmin Month22 Jun 2023 | 12
AWS makes its hybrid cloud behave a bit more like normal, boring, on-prem servers
At last you can pick a dedicated host to run your Amazonian workload
Sysadmin Month21 Jun 2023 | 5
Latest SUSE Linux Enterprise goes all in with confidential computing
But you'll need the right hardware to take advantage
Sysadmin Month20 Jun 2023 | 2
Microsoft Fabric promises to tear into the enterprise analytics patchwork
Meanwhile, users are left to figure out how to cut their cloth
Sysadmin Month20 Jun 2023 | 7
Biting the hand that feeds IT
