http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/216844/a-z_programming_languages_awk/ I found this quite enlightening — both to awk’s position in the grand scheme of things, and for a deeper appreciation of UNIX culture.
The Guide to the System Administration Body of Knowledge (SABOK) has been moved to http://sabok.org/
Well my old laptop finally bit the dust a few weeks ago so my company got me a nice, new shiny Thinkpad T420. This is wonderful except that newest linux distros (e.g. Ubuntu 11.04) is lacking a bit on the hardware support. A few days ago I finally had almost everything working. Multi-monitor support, Nvidia graphics, etc. and all my applications worked fine except for the wireless card (a Realtec RTL8188CE) which kept cutting in and out.
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I’ve always thought of developers as being comparable to sysadmins. Sort of an item of a comparable magnitude. But I just realized there are a lot more Dev personnel than there are sysadmins. Specifically, I went to a Node.JS meetup in Los Angeles, and it was a joint meetup with UUASC-LA (a LOPSA affiliate). It…
So a while back I moved to an Epic 4G phone. It is more of a computer that also does phone stuff than a phone that does computer stuff. Since it is a computer, I wanted to see if I could use it like a computer. My eyes are still good enough to read the…
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Just learned of this (relatively new) professional association of system engineers – http://www.incose.org/ Their “System Engineering Handbook” looks yummy – I’m definitely going to check it out.
For sysadmins not yet using a Configuration Management tool, I’d like to recommend Cory’s article “Getting Started with Configuration Management” http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2011-04/openpdfs/Lueninghoener.pdf
POSIX = “Portable Operating System” + Unix http://www.stallman.org/articles/posix.html