I started my company about a year ago, but I’ve been doing consulting for a long time. In fact, my first job in the IT industry was working for a consulting firm. Before that, starting as far back as grade school, I was involved in a lot of volunteer civic and community service activities. I…
Category: Sysadmin
Training Patterns
So, I’ve been talking to some friends about training. I work with several firms in various aspects of training. Usually I’m actually delivering training, but in some cases I’m just helping to produce the training content, and occasionally I actually help build a full-fledged internal training regimen. I love doing this work, because it lets…
Linux/Unix File Copy Trick
I have a need for this hack every now and then, and I *always* forget it for some reason, so I’m putting it here for safe keeping. I’ll start a “hacks” category, too, so I can locate these quickly, and so you can too 🙂 So, here’s the hack: [jonesy@cranford testing]$ ls bar foo [jonesy@cranford…
My first screencast: The Linux Boot Process
So, I’ve taught the Linux Boot Process as part of a couple of different training courses now, and I thought I’d share it with the world in the form of a screencast (it’s hosted at my co.’s site). This is also a test to help me figure out how to “do screencasts”, generally. The material…
A Missing Battery in Python: a bash “select” equivalent
So, someone showed me a script they were writing in bash. They were doing a lot of manual menu creation, then using “read” to collect input, and manually mapping the input to longer strings, and then doing string manipulation stuff. Trying to help simplify and make things a little more sane and readable, I discovered…
‘Beginning Linux Administration’, Now With Open Enrollment
So, my training business is doing better than expected, which is good news in a tough economy. I’ve gotten some feedback from readers about my mention of training services offered through my company. My company has historically only performed training at client sites, and some folks had hoped I would expand into offering “open enrollment”…
What’s Missing From the Linux Training Landscape?
Everyone please also point this article at the managers who purchase training for your company or team, and other people you know who’ve had Linux training. So, a very large part of my business is providing Linux training. Up to now, I have performed only on-site training, often times developing custom training content for clients…
Activity Lapse: I blame Twitter
To all my geek/nerd friends in the blogosphere: I’ll be posting updates on Fedora Directory Server, my Linux training courses, and more in the coming weeks, but I wanted to let you know that I’ve recently been stricken with… umm… Twitter. I’m @bkjones on twitter, so if you’re into beer, brewing, billiards, cooking, guitar/music, linux,…
Two extremely handy geek URLs
I know, I know. I haven’t been posting nearly enough. But I did come across two URLs that are too handy not to pass on: Command-line-fu: this is a repository of handy one-liners submitted by pretty much anyone. You can log in with OpenID or register on the site itself. I expect this, or something…
Fedora Directory Server on RHEL 4 and 5, Pt. 1
The last time I had to do a NIS->LDAP migration, it was in a heterogenous environment with Solaris and Linux boxes, and it was around 2004 or so. Although I hit some rough patches adjusting to changes in how FDS is packaged, the community was awesome, and helped me get back up to speed in…