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Ethical quandry over security nondisclosure

Three years ago I did a security audit for a large ecommerce website. When the audit was performed, I found several severe security issues that allow for access to data that should not be accessible after a transaction is completed. On this site…
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What is an acceptable on-call agreement between employee and employer?

IT is full of heroics; many of us carry a paging device, like Batman waiting in his cave for the Bat Signal. What's a fair compensation for on-call schedules? Is it acceptable to handle emergency requests on weekends or vacations?
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What warning flags should I watch for when selecting open source software?

When comparing open source projects to commercial software, or even other open source projects, what situations raise a red flag and cause you to hit the eject button and look elsewhere?
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netstat tips and tricks

In the same vein as the "Useful Command-line" questions (for Windows, Linux, and Mac) , I think it would be handy to have "useful ways to use utility x" questions. Man pages tell you what parameters do, but not necessarily why you would use them,…
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Consulting: Organizing site/environment documentation for customers?

Over time, I've taken on consulting and contract engineering work for various clients. More recently, customers are asking for certain types of documentation. Which static IP addresses can I use for the new network time clock we're installing? How…
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How do you rate your success as an Administrator?

I am wondering how all you great admins out there rate your success. I am thinking not only in a personal sense but also how you rate your employees and/or department. How do you build a business case for additional staff, ROI, new equipment, and…
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What is 'FizzBuzz' for system administrators?

FizzBuzz is a simple test of programing ability, often used by employers to weed out people who can't actually program. Is there an equivalent test for system administrators and general IT guys? Clarification I'm looking for things that can be…
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Alternatives to Mailman

I need to replace or rebuild our old mail list server. This isn't a high volume list server and we are hoping to replace it with a free or OSS solution. I've setup mailman before, but it is starting to show it's age in a bad way. One of the…
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What cool visualization should I use for our server's status monitor?

So we have this company server standing in the corner of our office. It is connected to an LCD monitor hanging on the wall we occassionally use to check whether the backups did what they should. The question is: what cool visualization thing could…
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Professional Groups and Associations

After reading How valuable do you find professional memberships? I thought it would be useful to list the various professional groups and associations available. Discussion of the value (or not) of the groups belongs with the How valuable do you…
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Hosted LDAP Services

Are there any enterprise-grade services for externally hosted LDAP used for authenticating users in our company? Internally, we have many development and test servers that have system users locally created, and then we connect to our current LDAP…
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Sysadmin Dress Code

What kind of dress code do you have at work as a systems administrator? Business casual, casual, some days casual, some days business casual, formal? It's safe to say "it all depends on the type of day we're planning on having" - but what happens…
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any good networking book recommended?

i have wanted to learn about networking and how they work. Are there books or websites that are good for them? Some things I wanted to learn about: how to write a program that works like traceroute / tracert how subnet masks work how…
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How do you keep track of installed/used software/systems/services in your organisations server infrastructure?

I'm interested in any software, experience or guidelines listed that help to deal with listing installed services, their primary user (or business person that is responsible for this service), domain names, ip addresses, ports in your servers.…
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Finding a good IT Manager

I am having a hard time finding a qualified IT Manager for the company I work at. We need someone with some really strong management experience with the technology skills to back it up. We keep getting in people who are either all management or…
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