Daren Matthews

The Kerberos authentication method originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s.

It was part of a project called Athena that involved integrating the computers on the MIT campus, which ran on different operating systems, in a network that offered single sign-on (SSO).

At that time, most UNIX systems allowed users to access their resources as long as they had an account name and password. Read more…

SIGTERM vs. SIGKILL

Sending signals to processes using kill on a Unix system is not a new topic for most systems administrators, but I’ve been asked many times about the difference between kill and kill -9. Read more…

(And userstanding UIDs)

1. Login as root (or any account with UID=0) then create the new group:

groupadd myusers   (a new entry is created in the /etc/group file) Read more…

Permanently delete data from your computer with a “Government Wipe” standard of removal.  This is to be recommended, especially is you resell your computer. Read more…

UPDATE

Oracle Finalises deal to acquire Sun
An announcement on their website (http://www.oracle.com/us/sun/index.htm ) states:
“we plan to engineer and deliver open and integrated systems—from applications to disk—where all the pieces fit and work together out of the box.”

(Note the use of small “o” in “Open”)

Help keep the Internet free

SIGN THE PETITION

“A big part of the Internet is built on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl/Python). Now Oracle is trying to buy Sun, which owns MySQL. Read more…

Probably one of the most refreshing ideas I’ve heard of in a long time.  Vanish, enable messages (e.g. email, google docs, facebook) to be transmitted, which disappear” after a period of time. Read more…