I love most things about the great and powerful Linux; however, there are some things that will get you into some serious trouble. File recover in Linux is non-trivial, so it’s best to not delete something unless you are sure you want it. Unfortunately, it’s very easy to type ‘rm * .tmp’ instead [...]

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I’ve always been an Open Source fan, but I must say that I am particularly impressed by the quality of GParted. GParted allows you to non-destructively resize and manipulate hard drive partitions. Many Live CD’s contain GParted and allow you to resize various filesystems such as: FAT, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, XFS, and more. [...]

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Most of the clusters of servers that I administer are diskless — they receive their boot images over the network using PXE. These are Linux clusters, and the diskless nodes all boot Linux images, however, a couple months ago I had need to boot a DOS disk image. This is very similar to [...]

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Whatever your role or occupation there are doubtless times where you need to write a report. Most of the reports that I turn in are unique and need to be manually generated. However, my weekly test status report is pretty much the same every week and basically its just the stats that change.
Poking [...]

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One of the great things about being Test Lead is all the paperwork associated with the position (can you sense my sarcasm?). I’ve spent most of the last week working on test plans and test schedules. Since I have never enjoyed paperwork this is especially painful.
In creating a test plan I have really [...]

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One of the greatest things about testing is posting bug reports. While I’m not a sadistic software bug witch hunter, I do enjoy finding a good bug.
A few weeks ago one of the CORBA components in our system was turned over to me for testing. So, after looking over the specifications and the [...]

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I am a huge fan of the Firefox web browser and love all the freedom and flexibility it gives me. While casually surfing today I ran into the FirefoxFlicks website, which is basically a bunch of amateur commercials touting Firefox. Some of them are quite good/funny. Here are my favorites:

One Killer Browser
Sunday [...]

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Personally, I find some ironic humor in this article, published by eWeek. The question posed by the author is “If Bill Gates showed up at the Microsoft employment office today, would he get a job?” Probably not. After all, he dropped out of college and doesn’t have the right sheepskin hanging on [...]

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