Joe Poniatowski

Recently I submitted a blog entry to LiquidWordProductions for their December topic, which called for entries on things you feel you can’t live without. My submission was rejected, so I’ve decided to publish it here.
I Can’t Live Without… Music!

Confucius said “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” I […]

I recently ran a training session teaching some Configuration Management (CM) personnel some of the basic UNIX/linux shell commands, along with some of the common ways Secure Shell (SSH) utilities can be used to move application code around during deployments. I created an outline for the class, which is reproduced below. In no […]

I first started this blog mainly as a way to promote stories and articles I’ve written that are published elsewhere. Soon enough, I also started using it as a scratch-pad for thoughts and ideas related to work. Just the simple act of typing them and posting them, where anybody can see them (even […]

The “Could not create an instance of the CmdLib object. Please register the Microsoft.CmdLib component.” error message was because of certain web server extensions that weren’t installed. I think the SQL Server Reporting Server needed to be installed. In any case, we’re past that now.
Current problem: we’re running the […]

Actually, this article was published a few weeks ago, I just decided to mention it here while I’m working on my OpenSSH issues. It’s meant to be a light-hearted look at the scientific inaccuracies presented in the movie. Remember folks - it’s “Tongue-in-Cheek” - some people have really complained that I’m being too […]

Recently it was decided at the large State government facility where I work that Secure Shell (SSH) would be used to facilitate the deployment of application software to the servers. This approach has a number of advantages. All data transfers are encrypted. Key pairs can be used to automate the authentication, so […]