I really appreciate the number of people who attended the first #lopsa-live candidate forum and apologize for not being able to make it. My answers to the questions are after the split…
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Here is a great website for learning more about the powerful tool of regular expressions: http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html
This script will insert a timestamp at the start of each line you feed it. Example use: vmstat 1 | ./insert_timestamp.pl — cut here — #!/usr/bin/perl # insert a timestamp into the data stream use POSIX strftime; while ($_ = ) { print strftime (“%d%b%Y-%H:%M:%St”,localtime(time())); print $_; } — cut here —
A full day of Cfengine 3 training at USENIX conference by yours truly: http://www.usenix.org/events/fcw11/training/tutonefile.html#f1
I’m teaching Internal Documentation at PICC ’11 today, so I’ve attached my slides to this post.
A couple of weeks ago, I heard the owner of our company talking on the phone to a client. In the conversation, he referred to me as a rockstar sysadmin. Thankfully, he wasn’t talking about my singing. I chuckled a bit, but didn’t think too much of it. I mean, it feels good to be…
Try this query: If you have many columns in table, or long data in a column, when you do a “select * from my_table” in psql, in the output, the columns get broken up and smeared across the screen, and you have to squint to read the screen. Here’s the fix. Use extended display: x…
Hello – I’m running for the LOPSA board in the 2011 elections. I have been a sysadmin, a manager of sysadmins, and a conduit of sysadmin training and mentorship, for about three decades. I’ve worked with mainframes, minicomputers, microcomputers – and the new “mainframes” (everything is circular!). I’m currently the “pet systems person” in an…
Since you elected me last time around I have done a few things for LOPSA. I have served as Secretary Treasurer for the past 2 years. In that role I have managed the bank account and paid the bills. I have been involved in getting the Mentorship Program off the ground by briefly organizing the…
Hi, my name is Joe McDonagh and many of you may know me from irc as ‘joe-mac’. I have been in various roles in the professional world, but I really began cutting my teeth with the UNIX family of operating systems when I was around 12, with a special interest in information security. 13 years…