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I work at a large international development charity in London, as International Operations Manager. I manage a team of Regional ICT Service Managers, based in developing world countries, who keep our users happy through fixing problems, setting up great connectivity and generally making sure users can do their day jobs.

I previously worked at the same place as International Network Systems Analyst. I looked after a bunch of ICT systems in offices in the developing world, as well as looking after systems in our HQ. I gained a lot of knowledge in that job, and the techy side competes with the people stuff in the new role, hence I still hang out here a lot.

I'm passionate about the use of ICT in developing countries, both in terms of dealing with the inherent problems for ICT in those places, and using ICT as a tool for development.


Sep
27
revised How to create a complex scheduled vmotion task in ESX 3.5
added 166 characters in body
Sep
27
comment Does a Redundant Power Splitter Exist?
I'd like to know this too. Some expensive network equipment comes with only one power supply :-/
Sep
27
comment Normal user can run command on one machine but must be root on another, how do I remove this restriction?
+1 for suggesting actual location of file, and for correcting my case :-) Answer corrected.
Sep
27
revised Normal user can run command on one machine but must be root on another, how do I remove this restriction?
corrected capitalisation of $path
Sep
27
asked How to create a complex scheduled vmotion task in ESX 3.5
Sep
27
comment How much memory would be needed for a Wordpress site with 8.000 hits per day with the occasional spike?
And comma used to delimit decimals. Pretty crazy. That's the sort of confusion that crashes space shuttles...
Sep
27
answered Simpler way to secure port 22 from my “dynamic” ip?
Sep
27
comment Change Sharepoint Team Site home page
This options only works if the site has Publishing features enabled.
Sep
27
answered Normal user can run command on one machine but must be root on another, how do I remove this restriction?
Sep
27
comment Recommended host count in subnet
I don't think you really understand subnets till you've been working with them for a while - and in a lot of small organisations, the only person doing network admin is the person who expressed the least disinterest, not someone who necessarily has any previous experience or knowledge...
Sep
27
comment I cannot su when LDAP is running
Looking again at your log messages, su:auth says that mejmo doesn't have permission to su. So it is almost certain that you need to say who can su somewhere. You also should check the permissions on the su executable too, just in case - ls -l /bin/su. But I don't think this is the issue. PAM says no, so look into PAM config.
Sep
27
comment Best practices on how to send emails on clients behalf and avoid being black listed
@ptutt - done. Hope that helps.
Sep
27
comment What is your biggest blunder(s) in your career?
A bit more than that - a change control procedure means that any time you make a change it follows a procedure that ensures you took into account the effects of the change, consulted those people who would be affected by the change, documented the change, tested it, made a roll back plan, and scheduled it in with consideration to all the above. Usually there are other people as gatekeepers at critical points in the process. It means you don't tread on peoples toes, and always have a record of who did what when. And it makes it almost impossible to do anything fast.
Sep
27
comment I cannot su when LDAP is running
So you checked that the LDAP user has permission to su to root though right? Or even run su at all?
Sep
27
comment What is your biggest blunder(s) in your career?
+1 for "typical know-it-all IT dick" and no longer being one :-)
Sep
27
answered 550 error emailing on behalf of clients using spf
Sep
27
comment Best practices on how to send emails on clients behalf and avoid being black listed
+1 for link to excellent piece on Spamhaus
Sep
27
answered Best practices on how to send emails on clients behalf and avoid being black listed
Sep
27
answered I cannot su when LDAP is running
Sep
27
answered What is your biggest blunder(s) in your career?