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Congratulations to the PuppetConf Pass Winners! 11 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
I'm very happy to announce that the winners of the PuppetConf passes are Brett Inman and Matthew Barr Congratulations guys! I have extended to them the offer of hosting a review, if they feel like ...
It's like they've never watched WarGames 9 Aug 2013 | 04:53 pm
Oh, it's going to be one of these days… The director of the NSA announced that the secretive intelligence agency plans to prevent future security breaches by replacing the position once held by whist...
PuppetConf: Are you going? Want to? 7 Aug 2013 | 03:42 pm
I've been under the weather, so this is something that I should have published a couple of weeks ago but didn't. Although failure on my part doesn't constitute an emergency on yours, in this case, qui...
SysAdmin Day - What is it, and why? 26 Jul 2013 | 05:31 pm
Today is the 14th annual celebration of System Administrator Appreciation Day, as you probably know. I've talked about it a lot on this blog, there are all kinds of events going on, and whenever peopl...
SysAdmins - In Their Own Words 25 Jul 2013 | 08:29 pm
The other day, Kara Drapala emailed me to ask if I'd be open to answering some questions about what being a sysadmin means to me. I wasn't really prepared for how deeply it would make me think and con...
Dear Package Maintainers: Stop Being Clever 25 Jul 2013 | 08:56 am
In the Linux world, there are two ways of treating a service/daemon installation. The Right Waytm (which is what Redhat does) is to install the service but not start it immediately. This only makes s...
Monitoring Entropy? But...but...but... 18 Jul 2013 | 10:35 pm
So, I'm going through some of the current Big Brother / Hobbit / Xymon checks that we have throughout the infrastructure, I found something interesting. There exists the /var/lib/hobbit/client/ext/ent...
Washington DC SysAdmin Day Party (and a new sponsor in Boston!) 17 Jul 2013 | 05:25 pm
Alright, this is getting ridiculousAWESOME. In Boston, we have yet another sponsor: They're apparently just a couple of blocks from The Asgard, where we're having the party, so they wanted to know if...
Microsoft: Pure Dumb (Bad) Luck 15 Jul 2013 | 03:15 pm
Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. --Morpheus, The Matrix You really have to pity Microsoft a little. They've been victims of some accidentally tragic timing (with a hint of their own ...
SysAdmin Day Update! (Including more party tickets!) 13 Jul 2013 | 01:02 am
Well, this is exciting! We have another sponsor for the party! Dyn, which may be known to some of you from the service that made them famous, DynDNS, is picking up the appetizers for us at the SysAdm...
