I was on a long haul international flight a few days ago, trying to endure 14 hours in a metal tube. As my troubleshooting mind usually does, it was thinking of ways to make the flight more comfortable and efficient. I had all kinds of wonderfully impractical ideas about ways to speed up baggage collection and deal with the poor sucker in the window seat needing to use the lavatory with two sleeping people blocking the path.
If ever there was a universal tincture in the realm of Information Technology, it would have to be the boot disc (followed closely by the prybar, but I’ll save that discussion for the next episode). The popularity of boot discs seemed to explode in the mid-2000s, with a disc for just about any situation you could find yourself in. Many a SysAdmin has saved their retirement plan from a hasty rollover action with the aid of a well-chosen boot disc. The love affair between SysAdmins and their boot discs is still going strong, of course, and with good reason – they are phenomenally handy things to have to hand. With that in mind, here are ten of the most useful boot discs you can have ready for action, which will help propel you into the quixotic realm of SysAdmins who are not chemically dependent on antacids:
There is a conference coming for K-12 IT professionals this April!
If you’re an IT professional who works for a school, school district, or educational organization, you may be interested in a conference this April in Pennsylvania.
IU 13 in Lancaster, PA, is hosting Tech Talk Live on April 26-27, 2011. While there are other conferences for professionals interested in using technology in the classroom, this is the only conference that serves IT professionals who work in educational environments. The content is directed toward directors of technology services, systems and network administrators, application developers, and IT support staff.
Here at SysAdmin-Talk.org we spent a lot of time researching subjects for blog posts that will be helpful and interesting to you, from Finding Stale Accounts in Active Directory with Windows Powershell and Renewing an Expired certificate in Exchange 2007 to Creating a Custom RBAC Role in Exchange 2010 and Importing PST files into Exchange 2010. For this week’s post we wanted to do something a bit different and to follow on from our Exchange 2010 Architecture Poster download. So we have produced a brand-free wallpaper (well, apart from MilkyWay, which we love, so it stays) that will allow you to organise your desktop icons.
