Applied Trust has been producing The Barking Seal for our clients, supporters, and friends since 2003.
One of the greatest features of being consulting IT infrastructure engineers is that we have the opportunity to see, touch, and experience a wide variety of technologies and their successful (and sometimes, not so successful) application. We have the opportunity to solve problems that have never been solved before. And, every once in awhile, we make mistakes that provide good lessons. It's our hope that sharing some of these experiences will better our community as a whole. We hope you enjoy it!!
Jul 28, 2011
It's been a hot and stormy couple of weeks, but that hasn't put a damper on the fun at AppliedTrust! The 2011 Grill Master series has continued, with strong showings from Chris and Dan, and the love of lunches on the deck doesn't seem to be diminishing.
To the surprise of everyone, it turns out AppliedTrust Engineers...
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Jul 01, 2011
We’re just about to celebrate 10 years of infrastructure-, security-, and opensource-lovin’ fun at AppliedTrust! Please save the date of September 10, 2011 (9-10-11) to join us as we celebrate our 10th anniversary starting at 5:30pm at the historic Boulder Theater. Festivities will include cocktails, dinner, inspiring...
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Jun 17, 2011
Nothing says summer like grilling. Or, barbecuing as they call it in England, because the "proper" name for broiling is actually grilling, and they're fundamentally different cooking methods. We really have no need for "true" barbecue, because everyone knows most of the food is just boiled anyway. But I digress......
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Jun 12, 2011
Trent and I had a great time in our session at DrupalCamp Colorado this morning - special thanks to Greg Knaddison fromDrupal Scout for presenting with us!! The session slides are available here!
The session, Keeping The Lights On - Operations and Monitoring Best Practices, covered a variety of Drupal operations...
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May 01, 2011
Kaz Hirai, Sony's executive deputy president, held a press conference this morning and issued a press release discussing Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s (SCEI) response to its failure to protect over 10 million PlayStation Network accounts, which included both personal and credit card information. Since this...
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Apr 06, 2011
Last week I found a long-forgotten, almost empty bag of bread in the back of my pantry. Some bizarre reaction had resulted in the mold hardening and warping the plastic, which left an oily residue on my fingers as I rapidly flung it across the kitchen into my rubbish bin. In a perfectly natural comparative leap, I...
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Apr 04, 2011
I get it. As a device management utility, Telnet needs to go away. I guess that’s why, starting with Server 2008 and Vista, Microsoft decided to stop installing Telnet by default on its operating systems. While the little white angel on my shoulder says, “Great! One less insecure protocol to worry about,” the little...
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Mar 30, 2011
I find one of the more handy and versatile tools in my system administration toolkit to be the GNU "date" command. Now obviously it's no "top" or anything; it's not that date provides any crucial functionality, exactly. Instead, it's that it provides some very handy glue that can be used in a wide variety of...
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Feb 14, 2011
Join us Tuesday, Feb 22 11:00 AM MST/1:00 PM EST as Trent and Ned discuss cloud computing's impact on system administrators. Hosted by Safari and moderated by sysadmin extraordinaire Rob Kolstad, this will be a wild hour of system administration fun!
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This morning, Ned, Paul, and I watched the live video stream from the Number Resource Organization (NRO) as the last 5 IPv4 blocks were allocated to regional registries (AFRINIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC, RIPE). This is the dawn of the IPocalypse (as predicted) and will radically change our IT world from here forward. It...
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