Memories of being a university sysadmin

Early in my career I had to maintain the Windows servers but was specifically not allowed to use the SysInternals tools because "third-party free utilities you can just download are unsafe and prohibited." Late 1990s and early 2000s Windows management without those tools - with only what MS provided with the OS and what was … Continue reading Memories of being a university sysadmin →

Describing my style with one picture

Tools of the trade: knives

I previously posted about the original Leatherman Wave I've had since 1999. Now is other knives I carry. Left: Benchmade 3320 "The Pagan"Right: Smith & Wesson assisted OTF. Both are great knives. As you can probably tell from the photo the S&W has more handle wear as I've had it longer. The Benchmade is full-automatic … Continue reading Tools of the trade: knives →

Photo processing.

I use ImageMagick to do some simple processing of photos I take on my DSLR. Originally it was shell scripts that use find, xargs (using the parallel option,) and mogrify with an awk script to generate a trival HTML table. I rewrote this in Python using the WARD API library for ImageMagick and decided to … Continue reading Photo processing. →