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Wesley David is an IT consultant that deals with systems many and varied. Windows or Linux, servers or clients, front-facing or back-end, it matters not. If it plugs into a socket, he will likely be responsible for it. He blogs about systems administration and other technology topics at his personal blog The Nubby Admin
How to Kill a Company in One Step or Save it in Three
by Wesley David | 07 February 2012 |  38 comments |
The majority of companies that suffer a major data loss subsequently go out of business. Wesley David remembers vividly the day when the organisation he worked for found that they couldn't restore their data, and the subsequent struggles that ensued.... Read more...
High Availability or High Recoverability?
by Wesley David | 01 August 2011 |
Having pierced the veil of confusion surrounding High Availability, Wesley David finds himself asked (and being asked) whether HA is worth the money it burns through. Perhaps it’s more cost-effective to have a recovery process that moves like greased lightning? Read more...
The One Way That High Availability Will Help You
by Wesley David | 29 June 2011 |
High Availability (HA) is a term that is beloved of the marketing people, with its connotations of an unspecific sense of reassurance. However, service reliability cannot be bought like bath salts: But, explains a seasoned and cynical expert in the field, HA can be... Read more...
Be the Puppet Master! Control Multiple PCs with one Keyboard and Mouse
by Wesley David | 20 May 2011 |
In the average IT department, geek-credibility is bound up with the number of monitors you are simultaneously using. What about going one step further, and running them on several computers at once, with just one mouse and keyboard? Read more...
Monitors! Windows Extended Across Windows
by Wesley David | 11 April 2011 |
In any IT department, there is a certain geek-cool to having a whole range of monitors attached to your PC. The more, the geekier. OK, but are you really trying? In these straitened times, Surely it must be possible to harness old PCs and laptops into a huge... Read more...
Game-over! Gaining Physical access to a computer
by Wesley David | 15 March 2011 |  18 comments |
Security requires defense in depth. The cleverest intrusion detection system, combined with the best antivirus, won’t help you if a malicious person can gain physical access to your PC or server. A routine job, helping to remove a malware infection, brings it home... Read more...
7 Things that High Availability is Not
by Wesley David | 13 January 2011 |
Wesley has heard High Availablity touted as all sorts of technological cure-all for busy SysAdmins and DBAs, and now he's taking a stand against it. There are a range of things that High Availability is regularly confused with (either deliberately or innocently),... Read more...
10 Items that should be in Every SysAdmin's Backpack, Episode 6 - From the Ministry of Silly Tools
by Wesley David | 14 December 2010 |
Wesley David has been doing a lot of thinking about what tools (both physical & virtual) every good SysAdmin should have on hand. He's shared some of those thoughts with us already, and now he rounds everything off with some more light-hearted necessities. Read more...
Ten Things that should be in Every SysAdmin's Virtual Backpack
by Wesley David | 20 October 2010 |  3 comments |
A good SysAdmin needs the right tools, both virtual and physical. As a front-line consultant, Wesley David will be providing suggestions for both in the next few weeks, and here he discusses of the essential software tools that every SysAdmin should have on hand at... Read more...
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