Today is May 14th! Four years ago today, I wrote my very first entry on the Standalone SysAdmin blog! In Free advice is worth what you pay for it, I wrote about the genesis of my blogging – it all started with my LiveJournal, and my friends complaining that they didn’t “get” what I was [...]

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I love the idea of podcasts, but I decided a while back that the ones that were out there all fell into a format that were nearly unlistenable to me. I didn’t like the length, and I didn’t like the ceaseless laughing at each other by the cohosts. It was just grating on my nerves. [...]

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I like Nagios a lot. Actually, I really just like monitoring the status of my resources and services, and I like incredibly flexible software that allows you to do whatever you want in order to accomplish your goals. In other words, Nagios. It’s not without its warts, but it is software that I’ve used for [...]

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Just kidding. I’ve had this blog post sitting in my queue for a week. I really thought this whole thing would blow over, but people keep talking about it, and as an interested conference-goer, it’s not outside of the realm of my interests…it’s just that I think that this whole “drinking at conferences” thing is [...]

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So last night, Amazon issued a press release announcing the availability of the Amazon Marketplace: …an online store where customers can find, buy, and quickly deploy software that runs on AWS. You can select software from well-known vendors including CA, Canonical, Couchbase, Check Point, IBM, Microsoft, SUSE, RedHat, SAP, and Zend as well as many [...]

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Next Wednesday, April 25th, the Tech Field Day crew is organizing a Solid State Storage Symposium in San Jose, California. Stephen Foskett is hosting the all-day event which features a keynote address by Robin Harris of StorageMojo fame. Chris M Evans, Howard Marks, and Nigel Poulton will moderate a panel of innovators in the enterprise [...]

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