Systems Administration

Keystroke flow in X.org

Posted June 12th, 2009 by wayland
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Now that I've been finding my way around XKB for a while, I thought I'd draw up a diagram of how keystrokes flow through X.org.

Cisco Operations Order

Posted January 19th, 2008 by wayland
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Details the order of operations for a Cisco. This is the most complete list I've seen anywhere, and as you can see, it's compiled from multiple sources.

Floppy/CD Linux Distributions

Posted January 19th, 2008 by wayland
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Comments in brackets (also known as "square brackets" -- the round ones are parentheses) are mine; others are from the project websites

Most of the files at ibiblio.org have more information in the LSMs

  1. Pluggable
    1. MuLinux: muLinux (Linux, really) is a full-configurable, minimalistic, almost complete, application-centric tiny distribution of Linux. [10 modules available]

List of good Systems Administration practises

Posted January 19th, 2008 by wayland
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Note that while many of the tools listed are Unix specific, the theories behind them apply to all Systems Administration, no matter what the system.

To find out how to do something in your version of Unix, look at the Unix Rosetta Stone

  1. Limit yourself: Do as little as possible with elevated privileges as possible (ie. only use root when necessary, learn the uses of sudo and su -c)
  2. Automation of any repetitive tasks:
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