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I want to take a minute to thank Thomas Leyer for all of his hard work and dedicated service to the LOPSA Mentorship Program Team.

Today I start a new journey with some of the smartest people on the planet.

John Sanders shared a pattern for canonifying lists in #CFEngine on irc.freenode.net yesterday.

There is a known bug where getindices is unable to get the index of a dynamically generated array until the next pass.

bundle common knowledge(status) { vars: "software" string => "$(status)", policy => "free"; !

Changelogs are just as important as the most important meal of the day.

Sometimes you want to know what value zenoss has for something.

Over the past several months 2 years (since 3.1.2 release, wow time flys when your having fun.

CFEngine defines a classes for decision making during runs.

Methods type promises are powerful abstraction tools in CFEngine 3.

Are you going to LinuxCon/CloudOpen 2012?

I was inspired by William Orr’s svn commit hook and looked up the magic needed to flesh out the git pre-commit hook I submitted to the Design Center a while back.

I updated the CFEngine 3 by example vagrant project so that /var/cfengine/masterfiles is a git clone (kept in sync with VCS::vcs_mirror) of the generated bare repository from the seed files.

I liked this, so I thought I would share.

If you follow CFEngine you may have notices that the multiple pay versions have been condensed down to CFEngine Enterprise with the latest release.

I just finished reading the final release of Diego Zambonis’ Learning CFEngine 3.

I have been using bibble for about a year now.

Here is an easy way to configure encfs with dropbox that is compatible with boxcryptor.

I re-factored rh_add_interface_routes into a new bundle rh_update_routes, you can find them in my CFEngine library.

Sometimes I am not so disciplined to run cf-promises on my policy before I commit it.

I’ve been working more and more with CFEngine lately and I have been slowly building a tiny library.

I am happy to see how many sites are participating in the SOPA/PIPA protest today.

I just wanted to share my NetApp customer service experience since usually people only share negative experiences.

Just a reminder that Xen Day Boston 2011 is coming up (December 9th).

[ ]1 If you’re going to LISA in Boston this year consider registering for Xen Day on Friday Dec, 9.

“I’m Grumpy.”

I have a few invitations, if you want one drop me a line.

In case you weren’t paying attention in the last few weeks, today is the 12th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day.

That’s right the Mentorship Program is turning 1.

Well I’ve been running gnome-shell for a couple days now.

Well I gave unity the old college try in ubuntu 11.04.

check_snmp_extend is a python script that I found orphaned on some Nagios forum.

Today I spent some time checking out google plus.

Just happened to notice that centos 6 looks like it will be dropping soon.

Monitoring systems utilize agents running on the monitored system in order to provide a consistent access mechanism to get at host and application data.

April 1st.

Yes folks, its that time of year to start thinking about the Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA), this marks the 25th Large anniversary of the event.

http://news.morningstar.com/all/market-wire/11710743/free-pool-of-ipv4-address-space-depleted.aspx Mostly I am looking forward to the sensational stories.

Looks like my article on right sizing RAID subsystems made it into the Feb 2011 Sys Admin issue of Linux Pro Magazine.

I know I have been pretty silent for a while, what can I say it has been busy.

Singing with the stars is a reality show where the famous and not so famous SysAdmins strut their stuff and show off their skillz.

An odyssey of a typical email thread using the top posting style that most email clients default to these days.

At $work we are in the process of migrating to Google Apps.

When you get started as a SysAdmin you typically fall into one of 10 categories.

Just a little tip, if your looking for bind stats and your chrooted rndc stats will give you rndc: 'stats' failed: permission denied All you have to do is touch /var/named/chroot/var/named/named.stats chown named:named /var/named/chroot/var/named/named.st…

Had a slightly vexing issue the other day.

IMHO one of the great benefits of virtualization is the ability to properly size your guests.

No one likes to forget to renew a domain.

Nginx is a great little web server.

Why do applications have such horrible error messages.