I have done a few interviews from both sides of the table, I’m not very good at either but thought I would have a go at answering my favourite questions. Describe an IT disaster and what you did to turn it around? The question is all about the turn it around bit. I’ve had lots of answers that emphasise the problem...

Like many systems administrators I watched as the news came out yesterday about the latest version of windows. What would it be like? What would it be called? Would it be better or worse than previous versions? I was shocked when the name of the new operating system was revealed to be Windows 10. What really!? At first...

I want to learn Development and eventually move into a development role. But what is the difference between development and what I already do? Put simply Development or programming is the creation of new programs, websites or databases. IT Operations or System Administration is the administration of existing servers,...

You may not have heard of Nagios but it has saved my bacon quite a few times. Nagios is an open source server monitoring application that runs on many linux flavours. I can’t remember exactly when I first installed nagios but I am guessing it was sometime in 2007/8. My boss gave me a book about it (which I never read)...