Monthly Archives: March 2006

Ok, I am officially afraid…

…of Google

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Google Juice

Base Camp API

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clutch

du -cksh * | sort -rn | head -11

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drbd

I spent some time yesterday messing with drbd. I have to say, it’s quite cool. It ended up not being exactly what I wanted, but if you are considering a linux high availablity cluster, you’d be remiss not to look … Continue reading

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Random Acts of Idiocy

Just ordered an EZ-PASS from the PA turnpike squad. They have a mandatory field on the application for “How did you hear about us”. I of course lied so as to skew their data. This is awefully cavalier of them. … Continue reading

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www.scroogle.org

Scroogle is a site that proxies google results, and supposedly keeps no records. With the current political climate a little more anonimity might be in order.

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Admin Follow Up

So yesterday I learned two things…and today I learned them again :) 1. Perl’s exec, “The “exec” function executes a system command and never returns”…which means if it’s executed in a loop, the loop will run once and never come … Continue reading

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Admin

My new post has me doing a lot more admining than I had been at the last job and I am tackling some neat stuff. New things learned today: 1: Perl does not like it when you use shell pipes … Continue reading

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Time Management for System Administrators

I borrowed this book from Lon. It’s good, however already several chapters in, I haven’t really heard anything new that I didn’t get from the perlcast that I posted about a few weeks ago. I was happy to see that … Continue reading

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Version control of etc

I decided to start using version control on /etc and ~/. I was talking to Sparty and he mentioned that he had been doing this for his ~/ directory. Sounded like a good idea. A word of caution. Subversion (as … Continue reading

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