SysAdmin

Various articles and Ruminations on the topic of Systems Administration.

Data Mining Apache Logs - Just How Fast is the End User Experience?

Using R to better analyse Apache logs and see how fast pages are being sent back to users.

So You Want to Learn Regular Expressions?

A brief explanation of the concepts with understanding Regular Expressions. Written, principally, for non IT people.

The Story of SuSE 10.1, KDE and a Logitech MX3000 keyboard

Wherein a method for binding multimedia keys is exposed.

Apache, Subversion and "configuration error: couldn't check access. No groups file?:"

The joys with upgrading to the latest Fedora Core release.

Web Proxy-Log Usage Forensics and Analysis

This article is based on my direct experiences with having to provide report(s) to the Powers That Be on Inappropriate Usage of the WWW.

JRE, Subclipse and "RSA premaster secret error"

Arrrgggghhhhh!!! This was extremely frustrating.

Observations on the Lupper Worm

Curiously, it seems to be profoundly ignorant of Name Based Virtual Servers/Hosts. Which in turn provides us with an opportunity.