For some reason, I get a lot of resumes from people who sign their resumes and emails (including the GECOS fields) with their irc/renaissance faire/SCA/WoW handles .. I should not have to be saying this to grown men and women (let’s face it, it’s men, and they’re not that grown), but if you cannot sign…
Last weekend we went to LinuxFest NorthWest 2008 in Bellingham, WA. It was a great time, we handed out a bunch of Tee-Shirts, met a lot of good people, and saw some interesting presentations. I even spoke with around half a dozen potential summer interns. What was really interesting, however, was the response to LOPSA….
So you’ve put about 200 man hours into your configuration system this year. It’s good. There are a number of things you’d change about it, but you’re at a point that it’s running rather smoothly. All of a sudden, there’s this great new system that comes out. All of your problems are solved! It promises…
Linda & I have spent the past 5 days in Seattle, looking at houses and touring datacenters. I’ve posted some of my peanut gallery comments about the Seattle datacenter scene: http://mhalligan.livejournal.com/15407.html http://mhalligan.livejournal.com/15763.html http://mhalligan.livejournal.com/15166.html
Shiiiiiiiiiiny. It’s a physically attractive server, and while this feature may not add any 9s to your uptime percentage, it will certainly attracted oohs and ahhs at the datacenter. Beauty isn’t just skin-deep with this server. Crack open the top (which you do by pushing down on a spring-loaded tab, then pulling up on it)…
I stumbled upon Gliffy.com, a web-based Visio clone today, and was quite impressed. The good: – 100% web based – Good layout – Intuitive user interface – Worked in Firefox 1.5.0.4 under OSX 10.4.7 without crashing once. Very few flash-based applets seem to be able to make that claim! – Has all of the basic…
BitPusher has a personal colocation offering that we provide to friends & colleagues. We usually charge $75 per month per 1U server. We’re offering a special rate for LOPSA members, however. $55/month, with no setup. More information is available at http://www.bitpusher.com/lopsacolo.php . E-mail mhalligan@bitpusher.com to get signed up.
If you don’t like talking to people, especially in person, or to strangers who are not even remotely technical, then get out now. Sometimes, I feel like I’ve been consulting since the womb. In practicality, every FTE position I’ve had, I’ve really just been a consultant who happened to have health insurance, and worthless stock…