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The iPad2 release at the San Francisco Apple Store, right behind my office building. Huge lines, 4 blocks long wrapped around the block. I get it that people are excited but there’s no need to get THIS excited for sequels. And its not even that exciting, still no USB/Thunderbolt external storage support.

I can finally say it, I’m officially a Systems Administrator. Not the kind that tinkers around with his old *nix server in basement reassuring himself that he’s learning something not just procrastinating. But the kind that actually gets paid.

Apprentice to Senior Sysad at ThoughtMatrix, Inc.

Hardware You Need: Any box that runs Ubuntu server edition with respectable performance.

Software:

• SSH
• rtorrent
• Samba
• Apache

More as I find time…

My one long year with multiple site outages and high ping response times is almost over. I’ll be moving from Dreamhost to my old host – Netfirms. I would be moving my blog and a couple of other sites so people who do stop by once in a while expect some downtime over this weekend while I’m doing this. If everything goes as planned this should be a smooth and easy transfer.