System administration is a special are of IT. It also has a special place in my heart. It is an interesting mixture of all the other disciplines, both common across the whole industry, and at the same time unique for each person, company, and geographical location. When I have something to say or share about system administration, I use this category.
awesome courses – list of awesome university courses for learning Computer Science!
While there were quite a few of these from before, this one is a really good selection. Â I’m currently going through the slides of the Cloud Computing course from Cornell University.
Fedora 21 has been out for quite a while. Â Usually, I’m among the first ones to upgrade. Â But this time I am too busy at work. Â Finally, today, excited! Running:
fedup --network 21 --product=nonproduct
It’s been a year or so since the release of Fedora 20 – an unusually long break which was needed for some restructuring of the project. Â Finally it’s over and Fedora 21, bright and shiny, is hitting the digital shelves right about now. Â Go get it!
Electronic Frontier Foundation reports some excellent news:
Today EFF is pleased to announce Let’s Encrypt, a new certificate authority (CA) initiative that we have put together with Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, IdenTrust, and researchers at the University of Michigan that aims to clear the remaining roadblocks to transition the Web from HTTP to HTTPS.
More specifically:
With a launch scheduled for summer 2015, the Let’s Encrypt CA will automatically issue and manage free certificates for any website that needs them. Switching a webserver from HTTP to HTTPS with this CA will be as easy as issuing one command, or clicking one button.
bup – very efficient backup system based on the git packfile format