What are the Sysadmin-Related Blogs & Mailing Lists you monitor? / Admins

Blackhat SEO

• http://contempt.me/ - Totally a jerk, possibly illegal. Blog spam, spam rings, and the like. But an interesting look into administration of hundreds or thousands of tiny sites.

Scaling

• http://highscalability.com/ - Often about code, but just as often about scaling servers and system tweaks to optimize. Like this article and optimizing even CPU load balancing

Security

• http://gentoo-portage.com/GLSA - Because I run gentoo. The security list of whatever major products you use is standard I think
• http://xorl.wordpress.com/ - He reads the patches for security holes and shows where the error is. It's code, but often in the kernel or major packages
• http://www.darknet.org.uk/ - Often has posts about tools, including forensics, SCADA, and the like
• http://digg.com/security - Often fluff or several days behind, but it's slow-moving so it's easy to stick in and forget
• http://ha.ckers.org/blog/ - More configuration type posts, but also talks about large-scale deployment of security fixes and techniques
• http://www.net-security.org/ - I find this to be almost total fluff and markest more at CIOs looking for buzzwords, but once in a while some signal gets through
• http://www.net-security.org/insecuremag.php - An awesome magazine that comes out every few months
• http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/ - He runs a Web Application Firewall company, so his posts are often focused around that, numbers relating to the industry, and general Web Security
• http://www.schneier.com/blog/ - A mainstay
• http://www.secguru.com/ - Something like a reddit for security. It often gets good articles but some of then are fluff
• http://www.windowsecurity.com/ - Has good tutorials and explanations for setting up things like Domain Authentication and Kerberos in Windows.
• http://seclists.org/#bugtraq - I monitor this for anything interesting or apps I run. Often gets first-reports
• http://seclists.org/#dailydave - A very high signal to noise ratio list run by Dave Aitel
• http://seclists.org/#pen-test - Low signal to noise, but I skim it anyway
• http://seclists.org/#basics - Low signal to noise, but I skim it anyway. I can actually answer some of these!
• http://seclists.org/#webappsec - Low signal to noise, but I skim it anyway

From a Windows Sys. Admin. perspective:

• Windows Security Blog
• Windows 7 Team Blog
• Engineering Windows 7
• Mark Russionovic's Blog
• The Windows Blog
• The Daily WTF

VM side of sysadmin stuff:

//yellow-bricks.com/

//blog.scottlowe.org/

//vmprofessional.com/

fedora-devel-list@redhat.com -- especially enjoying to read threads where Lennart Poettering starts a round dance.

Some of my favorite sysadmin/operations/IT blogs:

• Kitchen Soap - by John Allspaw, former Flickr's Operations Manager, now at Etsy
• High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites
• Standalone Sysadmin - Great tips by Matt Simmons :)
• Agile WebOperations - bridging the deployment gap
• Twitter Engineering - Twitter folks on Technology
• NixCraft - Linux tips and howtos
• MySQL Performance Blog - Best MySQL blog around
• dev2ops - Delivering change