I have, in front of me, the signed employment contract for my new job, which I plan to fax back to the company tomorrow morning.  My new title will be Senior Linux System Administrator and my salary will go up by two and a half times what I am currently making.
I am horribly underpaid in [...]

I’ve deactived the anti-spam module because it killed some legitimate posts.  From now on, the first time you post a comment it will be held for moderation.  After the first time, assuming it is approved, comments will go live immediately.

One of the servers I manage has been getting slammed hard by ssh brute-force dictionary attacks.  There are typically a few thousand such attempts each day.  One particularly bad day saw 122,000 attempts.  I got tired of seeing this in my security logs, so today I did something about them.  I used iptables to limit [...]