Archive for the ‘sysadmin’ Category

Evolution of Mac OS X

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Jordan Hubbard, Apple’s Unix Technology Group director and author of “Absolute BSD: The Ultimate Guide to FreeBSD“, recently gave a presentation on the evolution of Mac OS X. It has some interesting information on the under-the-hood developments of OS X and where it will move in the future.

Mac OS X has been my favorite OS since I fell in love with the public beta in the fall of 2000. It’s a great UNIX combined with the nicest user interface I know of.

Top 10 Sysadmin Truths

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

If you have ever performed system administration work, check out the these comments on Slashdot. It is said that humor comes from being true to life—boy, is that the case here.

Coincidentally, these Slashdot comments highlight the major advantage Slashdot has over sites like Digg. Slashdot has a rich user community built into it. I often don’t even read articles posted on Slashdot (especially the ones that were covered already on Digg the week before ;). I read Slashdot for the level-5 comments.