The SysAdmin Song

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Thanks to all who have participated in the demographics survey. We’re well over 100 participants, still looking for more. Your input is greatly appreciated.

Thanks to George for filling in for me on Tuesday. The IP Address changeover didn’t go as well as I had hoped. MCI didn’t make the final route change in time, so I finally aborted about 9:00PM. Turns out, it was a good call to abort as the link never came up until the next afternoon and even THEN we couldn’t reach all sites.

My Cleveland trip has been canceled due to the lingering network issues. What I was going there to accomplish won’t be possible for some time still. Maybe some other time.

Robert Kloosterhuis send me a link to the System Administrator Song, written and performed by Wes Borg of deadtroll.com. This song hits the nail on the head. As part of our SysAdmin Day promotion, I encourage you to point all your users at Wes’s site so they can experience the song themselves. Place a link on your Intranets… Let me know how you promote it!

I tinkered around with BartPE a little bit this week. I’ve known about it for a while, but just never did anything with it. VERY slick! I’ll be putting together an Admin-to-Admin segment for BartPE on the chance there IS someone else out there who hasn’t tinkered with this nifty tool just yet.

And finally, several links that I found this week that looked interesting.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

SysAdmin Day – Friday, July 29, 2005
THE System Administrator Song (aired with permission)
by Wes Borg at deadtroll.com

BartPE
Homemade Rack
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Sructures
Setting up a Reverse SSH Tunnel
SSH and SFTP Server for Windows XP
SSH Tunnelling in Hotspots for Privacy
Virtual Desktops
Microsoft Powertoys for Windows XP – Virtual Desktop Manager
Convert TiVoToGo to MPEG

SysAdmin of the week or month
Atta-boy to George for such a nice rack