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Redundant power is a necessity for any highly available system.

Today I woke up to another abrupt Google change, the background image.

I don’t have much to say about the loss.

Recently I was building a ZenPack for Zenoss.

I came across a new blog (seems to have come on-line in March) http://www.epoxyjournal.com.

I just downloaded EMC Networker client for a 32bit linux box.

They are only on their 3rd episode, but its been good listening so far.

Gah, still recovering from a hardware issue that hit early Monday morning.

I have a love/hate relationship with cpanel.

Yesterday I had a tip on removing yourself from any testing for that google sidebar that your likely seeing in your search results now.

This deserved a repost.

Google is constantly doing experiments to see what its users like best.

I’m curious what anyone who reads this blog thinks.

Monitoring and analyzing performance is an important task for any sysadmin.

As anyone in the search industry can tell you, getting website traffic for your primary keywords and phrases in organic search can mean the difference between the success or failure of your website.

I don’t think I bothered to complain here but I sure sent my fair share of nasty grams.

Recently a developer came to me and said they are starting to see failed builds apparently due to open file handle limitations on the build server.

I’m not a fan of OSX and I try to avoid it with the same veracity that I avoid Windows.

I don’t know how many of you know that I am a recovering gentoo user.

Besides the gui/vnc consoles you can still use the equivlent of xm console in Citrix XenServer.

Don’t even start with me about how telnet is horrid.

I recently had a need to push out a few settings to a group of iLOMs on new Sun servers.

In the last week my wife and I have both experienced excellent customer service.

Citrix has released the beta for the next version of XenServer code named “Midnight Ride”.

I know I’ve mentioned how much I love the sysstat package before.

If you hadn’t already guessed I am a big fan of the Xen hypervisor.

Have you ever had a machine that was a bit flaky?

I like to have as little run in dom0 as possible.

Python has become my language of choice for automation and general scripting.

This is just an old entry that I thought was interesting, and it appears its still relevant.

Another day, another flashback.

Matt Simmons is trying to dust off some old articles he think some people may have missed.

The last few days I have been having a pretty good debate with a friend about the virtues of open source vs Appliances.

Ewwww, scary isn’t it.

I’d like to thank Dale Mugford and Duane Storey from BraveNewCode for the nice WordPress plugin and bundled mobile theme.

Many of you know that I had a son about 6 months ago now.

Gah so I was futzing with the acl map on our subversion server.

I am sure you are aware of my affinity for the Xen hypervisor.

From time to time I have not so pleasant support experiences.

This comes up from time to time for me.

This is one of my bosses favorite sayings.

Ha!

I love how there is all of this squabbling about what the definition of broadband is.

It looks like I will need a windows backup solution for a small project soon.

It took me a long time to hunt these down and I think default passwords should be freely available.

I’ve been wiping a lot of hard drives recently.

Wow I can’t believe these never made the top 40!

I am a big fan of chat support.

Have you ever started writing a one-liner and half way in realized it was a bit more complex than you first thought?

Ryan Nedeff posted a comment over on Matt Simmons blog about the Future of System Administrators.