The Raspberry Pi is a great computer, even if it doesn’t have SATA. For those of us who have lost a few SD cards to the inevitable corruption that comes from not shutting a Pi down properly, here’s ...

Under normal circumstances, PCs boot from a local storage device, like a hard disk or USB drive, connected to the computer. Workstations, however, can be set up to boot from a network, which can ...

Setting up a Raspberry Pi can be as straightforward or as complicated as you make it. Most people flash an SD card, plug it in, and call it a day. That works fine for hobbyists, but it becomes ...

The Raspberry Pi is a great computer, even if it doesn’t have SATA. For those of us who have lost a few SD cards to the inevitable corruption that comes from not shutting a Pi down properly, here’s ...

It's funny how automation evolves as system administrators manage larger numbers of servers. When you manage only a few servers, it's fine to pop in an install CD and set options manually. As the ...

At my job when we ghost all the computers we disconnect them from the network (ghosting slows down the network a bunch) and connect them to a small switch manualy (which is hooked up to the ghost ...

Administrating large installations of computer desktops requires many tedious system reparations due to software updates, hardware fixes, user mistakes and viruses. To reduce costs, some enterprises ...

Apple has recently been granted a patent for administering and maintaining a network-booted operating system, possibly laying further groundwork for a cloud-based version of Mac OS X. Apple was ...

A set of nine vulnerabilities, collectively called 'PixieFail,' impact the IPv6 network protocol stack of Tianocore's EDK II, the open-source reference implementation of the UEFI specification widely ...

This is not strictly a server-specific topic but this is something that probably becomes more of a problem with server and automated provisioning environments. Though in my case it's my home lab. Most ...