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I am so very tired of hearing about “the cloud”.

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Debian is departing (if ever so slightly) from the historical mantra “It ships when its ready”.

I’m sure you have heard about the open letter from Centos regarding not having control of some key elements of the project and the AWOL admin.

Congratulations to everyone in the club.

I’ve been working with puppet a lot in the last few weeks.

I have to use windows for a few things at my new employeer.

Matt Simmons recently had another post that mentioned structured systems management.

Sorry for the spam just testing modifications to a plugin

A while back I wrote about using Apache as a dynamic reverse proxy.

Ha!

Apparently I have had a caching issue on the blog for a while now.

I recently had to write an init script for our continuous integration systems remote build agent.

Recently I have been working on cleaning up our continuous integration enviornment.

I know I’ve been absent.

If you haven’t noticed Matt Simmons moved off of blogspot today.

In preparation for connecting to (im guessing here) an Exchange server at my new job I am switching from my beloved Mutt to Evolution.

From time to time this is appropriate to repost.

So I noticed my places.sqlite has grown to over 80M.

Last week I stumbled on a nice console regex helper.

nginx is a high performance HTTP and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.

I hadn’t seen this tool before so I figured I would share.

The linux foundation has begun the judging period of the “We’re Linux” commercial (answers the I’m a PC commercials).

Its handy to keep some remote dns servers in your head for troubleshooting.

Note, there is a short story before the main course.

Today Citrix announced that it will distribute its enterprise packaging of Xen for free.

Have you ever gotten a pdf with one of those annoying passwords?

Over the last couple days I’ve briefly talked about revisioning configs and making your home directory portable.

Seems like we are on a bit of a roll with regard to the topic of versioning lately.

Every time I have a new shell account I end up customizing it.

Waddya know I’m not the only geek with an affinity for the console.

Yesterday I wrote about CPU Performance Analysis in Linux.

A while back I wrote a post Analyzing Linux System Performance and Finding Bottlenecks.

Have you ever experienced hard lockups and seen no trace of the cause in your log files?

Ever run into a situation where passing the option single to the kernel wasn’t enough to get your root password reset?

I was restoring some files from backup today and ran into a few files that had leading slashes.

I posted about Tom Limoncelli and his Time Management for System Administrators.

It’s not new news but I havent seen anyone else mention it.

Im sure everyone is familiar with smb messages especially as everyone was assulted with them about 10 years ago (stupid soho routers and spammers unite!).

I just wanted to make sure no one forgets that wildcards can be used in your .ssh/config.

With small websites sometimes you need to put up a maintenance page while you are making some modifications.

I use vim for the vast majority of my editing.

I have a pretty good memory when it comes to juggling multiple tasks but I am (and have been for some time) trying to break my self of using my brain to store everything.

Some projects have production code that runs off of a git cloned repository.

I see Samuel Huckins just had a post about apachetop http://dancingpenguinsoflight.com/2008/12/top-for-apache-activity/ which I have been meaning to mention for a while, but being that there is a fresh post about it I will mention Mytop instead.

I was recently asked how to change screens working directory.

This is lifted from http://bashcurescancer.com/shell-function-which-webserver-does-that-site-run.html.

For those of you who are horrid at math like I am googles unit conversion is a great help.

I typically use /etc/cron.d to store all of my system crontabs.

As you by now well know I try to mostly live at the console (well multiple x consoles).