This post is part of a series of older draft posts from a few months ago that I’m just getting around to publishing. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a build system that meets my requirements (see the last paragraph).
At work, we have a handful - currently a really …
more ...A while back, I did a technical phone screen with a big online “social” company (I won’t say who, but they’re a household name, growing fast, and doing cool things; that doesn’t leave too many options). I rarely remember to write down interview questions, but I was …
more ...Here is a small selection of sysadmin links that I recently found, and wanted to share:
We use Puppet Dashboard at work to view the status of our puppet nodes. While it’s very handy, there’s one feature I really wanted: the ability to show the value of arbitrary puppet facts in the main node table on the home page. Specifically, the facts we use …
more ...I’ve followed Tom Limoncelli’s blog for quite a while; his books The Practice of System and Network Administration and Time Management for System Administrators were infinitely helpful in the early days of my professional life, and are among the few (literally, 4 or 5) books that live on …
more ...A few links that I’ve had in my “mention in a blog post” category for a while:
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’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 ...Since I always seem to forget this wonderful feature of GNU screen (probably one of the pieces of software I use the most every day)…
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