December 2009
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SysAdmin Professionalism Survey →
Tom Limoncelli is running a survey on sysadmin professionalism, which I recommend any and all who are connected to the field to take.
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via julie911) (via quote-book) (via ilovehacking)
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Merry Christmas
Stay warm, and enjoy the company of your friends, families, and memories. If you can, try to listen.
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“I know. Advent is only 24 days. Continuing from last year’s “Jordan...”
– SysAdvent Day 25 - Introducing UNIX 4.0!
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“I wish I had started blogging before it was popular and before you could make...”
– Personally Reinventing the Weblog Publishing Stereotype – Shawn Blanc
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“Jezebel” by Iron and Wine. An older...
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A Few Notes on the HP Mini 110
Last night at the Christmas party, Fog Creek gave everyone an HP Mini 110 netbook. Very cool. Once again I’m reminded at how lucky I am to work with those guys.
Out of the box, these guys come with an Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, a 150GB hard drive, and a copy of Windows 7 Starter Edition. It’s a great box for web surfing, and the battery life is amazing. I’ve had it off of...
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Task Management for Sysadmins
This post over at the SysAdvent blog got me thinking so much that my face nearly melted. The author proposes that sysadmin teams begin implementing Kanban as a general task strategy. It looks like a fantastic choice because it pegs expectations to reality.
I am not entirely sure that I could fully graft it to our small team, but this gives me a great place to start. Even more so than usual, I...
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Last night I attended the Fog Creek holiday party, which was fantastic. Great food, great people, and a great parting gift. I also have a slight hangover - my first in a long time. It is not proper to mix whiskey and wine. That should be a commandment.
My landlord has informed us that we will be without water for at least 24 hours while they repair some pipes downstairs.
According to the...
WatchI am hanging out with Ella this morning. It’s grand.
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The Rosebuds - Get Up Get Out (The Hood Internet...
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WatchTo go along with the previous post, this is the official video version of “Stable Song” by Death Cab for Cutie. I was choked up after watching it for the first time. Amazing, really.
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ugh, server failure at CrystalTech. And apparently their normal backup process silently fails at backing up VM images.
For those that want to fire off a few snarky comments about Jeff’s loss, go ahead and make one, but then please do yourself and your customers a favor by examining your own backup strategy.
I’ll leave it at that.
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Early Resolutions
Next year is about restriction and reduction, so that I may focus on what’s important. Some ideas:
No more new books, at least those of the non-fictional variety. I have way too many under-studied texts on my shelves, and need to soak up what they offer instead of running after the next idea that catches my mind
Get rid of books that I don’t need. I listed over 100 books this...
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SysAdvent →
Great idea - an advent calendar geared towards sysadmins of various stripes.
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“Thing is: the internet’s made of IP addresses, opinions, and assholes. It’s...”
– kung fu grippe
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“There is, all around us,
this country
of original fire. You know what I mean.”
– Humpbacks — Mary Oliver
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Clarity - a clean web interface for tail & grep... →
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On Getting Things Done
When you have two newborns in the house and you still wanna kick ass and take names, you have to set goals if you wanna make a dent.
Today’s must-do tasks:
floss teeth
clip finger nails
After having heroically met those challenges, I know that nothing can stop me.
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“I live simply. I hate waste and excess. I have a good apartment, a good laptop,...”
– Derek Sivers, “Why I Gave Away My Company to Charity”
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“Standing in the Back” by Brian Carey...
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Yehuda Katz on Rails 3 →
While I tip my hat to the Rails team, I’m just not feeling it. I remember when I first got my hands on version 0.13, and was stunned at how clear and light it all felt. Not so much these days.
Anymore I prefer Sinatra.
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“I Need Some Sleep”, one of my...
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We Can Grow Meat Now? →
griffmusic:
Well, scientists have artificially grown some meat. I’m sort of torn by this whole thing because it does seem weird to eat artificial meat. I’m looking forward to it though. The implications of being able to grow meat cheaply and quickly in a laboratory can lead to a cure for world hunger. As the population of the world increases at an exponential rate, the ability to...
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WatchA historian thinks that Nazi scientist Joseph Mengele may be responsible for this bizarre outbreak in blonde, blue-eyes twins.
Surely there is a better explanation out there?
Looking for a Programmer? →
Alright! We’ve now got a nice recruiting tool built into the StackOverflow platform. Best of all, you can find out how many candidates meet your requirements before even spending a dime. Brilliant. [yes, I work for these guys… but seriously - no one does this]
“You’re assuming there’s some morally superior aspect to health care than there...”
– Rush Limbaugh to William Shatner
thedailydish (via brooklynmutt)
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“When I asked Angie Bowie why her ex was involved in magick, she remembered that...”
– From Peter R. Koenig’s The Laughing Gnostic: David Bowie and the Occult
originally found here: ily maus: i’m closer to the golden dawn
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ruby through apache... many hours later
awongh:
Now I’m thinking that it would have gone easier with the other bundled webservers that are supposed to come with rails? Mongrel? or I was also seeing instructions for lighttpd?
Yeah, Ruby deployment is a giant pain in the arse. A typical solution is to use Mongrel, and if Apache is up front, proxy back to it with mod_proxy. It works well, but still, what happened to the good old days...
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griffmusic:
This is a re-recording of a song I...
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Amp - a Mercurial compatible, VCS for Ruby →
Wow:
Amp is unlike any other VCS software to date. Amp’s novel command system gives you the flexibility to customize and personalize the way you develop software. Create in your own workspace with full Mercurial compatibility, and no external dependencies.
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Gangs in New York talk Twitter: Use tweets to... →
Headline says it all.
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Catalyst Advent Calendar - Day 1 →
The Catalyst team has started their annual advent calendar up again. Worth checking out if you live and breath Perl, or are looking to compare web frameworks across common languages.