Last Friday of July is the international System Administrators Appreciation Day. So, I want to congratulate all the geeks on the internet and wish you a good sysadmin day! For everybody else – if you have a sysadmin friend – congratulate him! Even better, buy him a gift, a beer, a new 23″ LCD display [...]
Hostex’s SysAdminDay begins. The tasks where just uploaded to the website and people can already view it here. I’m one of the guys who get the answers to all the tasks and rate them, so i’m very interested in how will people do them! The tasks are really interesting, and i really wouldn’t like if [...]
Hooray, next Friday is the System Administrator Appreciation Day (or just Sysadmin Day). Hostex, one of Lithuania’s biggest hosting and data-center companies, announced the already annual sysadminday contest (3rd year in a row).
After the Russians attacked Lithuanian governmental institution websites, pigu.lt, a Lithuanian e-shop (something like amazon.com), announced a security contest. In time period of one week ( since July 9th till July 15th ) anyone could try and hack pigu.lt, and wouldn’t be sued for that (if he won’t make any real damage). For anyone who [...]
Last night i had a pleasure of seeing nagios scream about one of my mail servers load. When i ssh’ed to the box the load was at 104, ouch. A quick tail -f /var/log/messages showed me the problem – i’m being DDoS’ed. My screen couldn’t handle all that output – ~500 connections /s, which makes [...]
A few days ago freebsd.lt finally expired and i had a chance of ordering this domain! Hooray!!!! I don’t really know what i will do with it, but the last owner didn’t do anything at all Currently, i just redirected it to http://www.lt.freebsd.org – Lithuanian FreeBSD mirror which our company hosts. In the future, if [...]
I hate when people use #!/bin/bash in their shell scripts! Today, at omnitel.unix – a lithuanian newsgroup, there was a question “massive nslookups”. A guy said that he has a text file with IP addresses one per line, and asked how to lookup them all. A few hours later, a guy who’s nickname is ‘bash’ [...]