September 2, 2010For the past few days, our NYC office has had incredibly irritating problems with the internet connection. We’ve got service through a local Metro-E provider, but they’re a CLEC, which means they don’t own the lines, they just lease them from the ILEC, who is in this case, Verizon.
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September 1, 2010There’s an amusing thread on the LOPSA Discuss list going on right now. It’s called “What Animal is a System Administrator“.
I was leaning toward the beaver until I saw the post by Paul Graydon, who recommends the Pooka, aka the Púca:
The púca has the power of human speech, and has been known to [...]
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September 1, 2010The other day, I caught a message that KSplice was available for Fedora. I thought I’d be a wiseguy and I replied “Yeah, great. Call me in 20 years when it’s available for for RHEL”. Well, as several people pointed out, it turns out the joke is on me.
As you can see, it’s actually [...]
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August 30, 2010This is apparently the “time to schedule your conference trips” part of the year, because there is news on the SysAdmin conference front.
First, and most pressing, the LISA10 conference schedule has been released! I’ve got to say, I’m digging the theme of the website, too. More important, though, is the content. Interestingly, all sessions [...]
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August 27, 2010My datacenter migration (or renovation, as I’m referring to it) includes a fair amount of added virtualization. We’ll be maxing out the memory and processor power of three machines at each site, and those will act as a VMware HA cluster (we’re buying the vSphere Essentials Plus license kit for each site).
Of course, [...]
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August 26, 2010Alright, several people have asked me why I haven’t weighed in on the current “devops” movement. Mostly because no two people can absolutely agree on what DevOps is. I’m outside of that particular community, although I read a lot of the blogs of the key members, so maybe I’m in a good position to comment [...]
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