So there we are, December 31st, 2009. Another year is going away and it's time to recap.

One year ago, I changed $WORK, my current work is, while properly payed, terribly boring. I knew it, i'm not complaining. It's just that I miss playing around making my own tools and scripts and being a little more of an engineer. It's strange, because it's supposed that the work I'm doing here is more qualified that the one I was doing on my previus job.

My last post in this blog was in MARCH, and nothing new has appeared here since then. And it's not because I haven't learned anything, or didn't feel like I wanted to share it. Actually, I wrote a series of articles regarding system administration, but they are on my laptor, rather than here.I learned a lot about Python, PostgreSQL and Oracle, a lot about SAN administration and about HP-UX. Oh yeah, SAP... nothing new there. It's the same old story...

To be able to cook up more articles, in the event that one day, I become less lazy and start publishing here again, I started a wiki where I take note of several stuff. So I have a lot of information to share, but I have to format it.

To sum it up... best wishes for all of you in 2010 and... expect some activity here :)

Well, sometimes it happens, you are not cautious enough, you are looking at the other side of the window to see what's going on, or, like in my case, you are on the phone while setting up your brand new dedicated server (actually the one where I'm going to move this site!)

I was disabling root access through ssh, and, before restarting the daemon and testing, I created myself a user, assign it to the proper groups, and then, restarted the ssh daemon and tried if I could log in properly.

I forgot one thing: ASSIGNING THE DAMN PASSWORD! and I closed the root session, too late, I can't access my new server. Luckily the hosting service will do something about it.

So, next time, I'll remember: I'm a man, and I can handle only one thing at a time.