A few links that I’ve had in my “mention in a blog post” category for a while:
If you keep up with news on the ‘net, you may have heard about photo sharing startup Instagram, which was purchased by Facebook for $1 Billion just 9 days after they released their Android app. Well, not only are they based mostly on open source software (well, yeah, pretty much …
more ...I’ve had a bunch of tabs open in my browser for a while - stuff that I read, thought was wonderful, and wanted to comment on. At risk of letting it pile up forever, here’s a collection of links that I thought were really interesting or insightful…
more ...I just read a wondeful blog post by Adam Fletcher, What Does A Sysadmin Look Like In 10 Years?. This almost totally describes what I see as the future of system administors/engineers/architects, and DevOps. And what I try, or want, to do. It’s the most accurate and …
more ...I recently had to setup Fedora 16 to test something on a SuperMicro 6015T-TV 1U “dual” server. This is a 1U enclosure with two separate servers in it - based on the SuperMicro X7DBT motherboards - each with an AOC-SIMSO+ IPMI and KVM-over-IP management card. Every time I …
more ...I’m working from home today, connected by VPN. I’m in the process of testing a bunch of Puppet stuff, and needed to re-image a bunch of VirtualBox VMs on my desktop at work, using PXE boot to Cobbler. I’m only connected to the desktop by SSH, and …
more ...Every once in a while, there are some files that I want kept in sync between my Android-based phone and one of my Linux (or Mac, or any Unix, or maybe Windows too, but I use Linux…) boxes. Yeah, I can copy them over manually via USB or even something …
more ...Using GraphViz to describe configurations is relatively popular in the software and systems architecture world; the simple text-based format makes it quiet simple, and the directed graph (dot file) is a simple method to store a graph of information flow or component relationships. Puppet includes builtin support for generating dot …
more ...As a follow-up to my CVS to SVN to Git post, I have the PHP EMS Tools repository migrated from my SVN to github. Since I’m moving the website and all development to a Redmine instance, the next step is setting up Github to work as a revision control …
more ...Thanks to some new interest, I’ve decided to resurrect an old project of mine, PHP EMS Tools. It’s a web-based tool for small emergency services organizations, mainly aimed at volunteer EMS/ambulance providers. The tool handles roster tracking, scheduling, equipment maintenance and checks, and a bunch of other …
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