Creator of the Unix Sysadmin Song explains he just wanted to liven up a textbook
When you get to Chapter 15 of a Unix book you're ready for a laugh
Sysadmin Month28 Jul 2023 | 18
Sysadmin Month
From tools, data security practices, network troubleshooting, server virtualization insights, backup strategies, performance optimization techniques, user management, cloud guidance, automation and scripting and more, tune in all month.
Sysadmins are being left out of AI implementation
Sounds to us like the beginning of an entertaining, but tragic, Who Me tale
Sysadmin Month28 Jul 2023 | 33
Oracle's revised Java licensing terms 2-5x more expensive for most orgs
One in five users can expect an audit in the next three years
Sysadmin Month24 Jul 2023 | 81
Google toys with internet air-gap for some staff PCs
Fewer than 2% of workstations will be cut off in 'experiment'
Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 69
Energy efficiency, staffing keep datacenter operators awake at night
Outages are declining, but when one does hit, it's expensive
Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 7
Antitrust clouds continue to gather over Microsoft's European business
Regional trade group applies to partake in Germany's probe of Redmond's cloud software policies
Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 6
AI maybe on everyone's lips, but it's not what's driving IT spending
Software expected to top $1 trillion next year, according to analysts
Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 11
JumpCloud says 'nation state' gang hit some customers
Updated Enough to make you hopping mad
Sysadmin Month18 Jul 2023 | 4
Microsoft 'fesses to code blunder in Azure Container Apps
Misconfiguration led to hours of pain for engineers as bootstrap service caught in a loop
Sysadmin Month18 Jul 2023 | 14
Typo watch: 'Millions of emails' for US military sent to .ml addresses in error
Good thing Mali isn't best pals with Russia right no– oh, shoot
Sysadmin Month18 Jul 2023 | 155
Goodbye Azure AD, Entra the drag on your time and money
Opinion Relic of the Ballmer years, we shall not see such marketing nonsense again… oh, hang on
Sysadmin Month17 Jul 2023 | 51
Network died, hard, during company Christmas party, leaving lone techie to fix it
Who, me? Yippee-ki-yay, other sockets!
Sysadmin Month17 Jul 2023 | 38
Microsoft's security roadmap: Protect secrets in Azure DevOps
You can’t steal what you can’t access ... we hope
Sysadmin Month16 Jul 2023 | 2
Why do cloud titans keep building datacenters in America's hottest city?
100 days over 100F and historic drought don't faze Microsoft or Google
Sysadmin Month15 Jul 2023 | 73
Teradata introduces LLMs to predictive analytics
But the outcome is far from certain
Sysadmin Month14 Jul 2023 | 4
Bizarre backup taught techie to dumb things down for the boss
On Call Response to taking out the trash rubbished a reputation
Sysadmin Month14 Jul 2023 | 258
Microsoft admits unauthorized access to Exchange Online, blames Chinese gang
Storm-0558 had access to customer accounts and mail – maybe even for senior US officials
Sysadmin Month13 Jul 2023 | 37
Microsoft whips up unrest after revealing Azure AD name change
Ditching it after a decade? Devs warn of the hours to correct documentation and chaos it'll cause
Sysadmin Month12 Jul 2023 | 130
SUSE announces its own RHEL-compatible distro... again
The chameleon-rancher chooses a new, Rocky course
Sysadmin Month12 Jul 2023 | 25
VMware teases multi-cloud generative AI offerings for August debut
Data here, model there, Virtzilla’s usual abstraction principles in between
Sysadmin Month12 Jul 2023 |
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How 'AI watermarking' system pushed by Microsoft and Adobe will and won't work
Check for 'cr' bubble in pictures if your app supports it, or look in the metadata if it hasn't been stripped, or...
As it prepares to abandon its on-prem server products, Atlassian is content. Users? Not so much
Massive price rises are coming for smaller holdouts, and Australian vendor knows its bottom line could hurt
Microsoft ends its week on a high – after a trying time with tax bills and Copilot costs
Kettle Bit of a Blizzard of news for Redmond
Regulator, insurers and customers all coming for Progress after MOVEit breach
Infosec in brief Also, CISA cataloging new ransomware data points, 17k WP sites hijacked by malware in Sept., and more critical vulns
India drops plan to place PCs on restricted import list
PLUS: TSMC chips away at export restrictions; Singapore's COVID model challenged; Japan's banking and ID systems wobble
One door opens, another one closes, and this one kills a mainframe
Who, Me? The Reg brings you balanced coverage of retro-tech
Australia threatens X with fine, warns Google, for failure to comply with child abuse handling report regs
Elon Musk's social network provided no response – or junk – to official inquiries about its safety practices
Excel Hell II: If the sickness can't be fixed, it must be contained
Opinion Microsoft's Steve Ballmer once called open source a cancer. Today's diagnosis points to a different cause
If you're brave enough to move full datacenter racks, here's the robot for you
Open Compute Partner with a material handling pedigree appears to be doing it for Meta already
India's AI vision calls for 80 exaFLOPS of infrastructure
Or about half of China's recent compute upgrade plan
STORIES
Tech execs turn to drink and drugs as job losses mount
34% of those surveyed are on stimulants including amphetamines
Sysadmin Month11 Jul 2023 | 32
Let's have a chat about Java licensing, says unsolicited Oracle email
Exclusive Don't tell Big Red too much, experts advise
Sysadmin Month05 Jul 2023 | 73
No open door for India's tech workers in any UK trade deal
Both countries want it, but respective red lines could torpedo an agreement
Sysadmin Month04 Jul 2023 | 219
Microsoft signs 1.5 million seat contract for Office 365 and more
$940m agreement with one of world's largest employers is value for money, we are assured
Sysadmin Month30 Jun 2023 | 49
This Windows update is snarling up some endpoint security tools
Malwarebytes and Trellix upgrades to the rescue
Sysadmin Month29 Jun 2023 | 9
The death of the sysadmin has been predicted for years – we're not holding our breath
Register Kettle We'd sure like to see a bot unpick a failed update or handle users struggling to find the 'any' key
Sysadmin Month28 Jun 2023 | 39
Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI
Opinion Time to get with the program... before artificial intelligence does
Sysadmin Month23 Jun 2023 | 92
Small custom AI models are cheap to train and can keep data private, says startup
Interview We talk to MosaicML, a startup driving down training costs with open source models
Sysadmin Month22 Jun 2023 | 12
AWS makes its hybrid cloud behave a bit more like normal, boring, on-prem servers
At last you can pick a dedicated host to run your Amazonian workload
Sysadmin Month21 Jun 2023 | 5
Latest SUSE Linux Enterprise goes all in with confidential computing
But you'll need the right hardware to take advantage
Sysadmin Month20 Jun 2023 | 2
Microsoft Fabric promises to tear into the enterprise analytics patchwork
Meanwhile, users are left to figure out how to cut their cloth
Sysadmin Month20 Jun 2023 | 7
Biting the hand that feeds IT
