Ubuntu Ruined My Life

[There’s a whole bunch of mean­der­ing aca­d­e­mic pon­tif­i­cat­ing and me tak­ing myself too seri­ously. About two thirds of the way down it gets really good, though. I promise. Also, the woman is now online and back in school. –JC] So appar­ently, some­one was try­ing to take online courses, ordered the cheap­est Dell with a CD — which …

Daemonizing Processes

Update: Commenters have pointed out a few things: This post is incomplete/incorrect. What I’m doing now is hav­ing the dae­mon func­tion call a script that looks like this: #!/bin/bash exec 1>&- exec 2>&- exec 3>&- nohup myPropApp & 2>&1 > thelog.txt That code was from another web­site who’s URL I lost, and I posted the solution …

More Help Wanted

As it turns out I have need for another Systems Administrator, this time in Washington, DC. This job is for a local admin­is­tra­tor to han­dle the day-to-day sup­port and activ­i­ties in the Washington office (com­plete with AD domain, Asterisk server, NAS, and a dozen users), as well as the four branch loca­tions in the DC …

Help Wanted

I’m look­ing to hire a Linux Administrator in for a posi­tion in down­town Chicago. It’s a high-demand, high-stress envi­ron­ment with lots of things going on at any one time: We play with high-end sun servers on an inter­na­tional pri­vate net­work, use Amazon EC2, and have a slew of Asterisk servers form­ing the joints of a …