Anthony Spina writes an interesting article on the Splunk blog ([here|http://splunkideas.blogspot.com/2007/02/youve-tagged-your-it-now-tag-your-ip.html]). Using network databases like this can make distributed operations much easier. How do you tag your machines?
Luke Kanies blogs a [rant|http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/02/why_isnt_system_administration.html] on configuration management that claims that the entire state of system administration is broken. Maybe he’s right, maybe he’s wrong. The problem is, he describes a microcosm of system administration in configuration management and then goes on to conclude that all tools of all aspects of system administration suck and…
So, all of the sudden “automation” is popular again. Luke Kanies posted a “blog”:http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/02/ on O’Reilly and sparked a discussion on “lopsa-discuss”:http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss. My first response got fairly long and I ran out of time for that mail message. So, I decided to move the rest to a blog post. In the intervening time, I’ve actually…
I’m working on a talk about the big lies in our field. What is your favorite “truism” in SA that just isn’t true? I’m looking for things like “adding just one more won’t hurt”, not so much the “I’ll be right over” kind. What’s your nominee?
For anyone job hunting, the positions on my team are filled for now. We may be looking for more system administrators later this year, so keep your eyes peeled. Other updates on my own blog site.
Some photos I took of LOPSA at LISA2006.
Whee. I’m finally done with my trip report for work. It probably still needs polishing. I’m done though. I can’t bring myself to write anything else about it. It’s viewable at Travis Campbell’s LISA 2006 Trip Report. All my notes are also published on Google Docs. If anyone’s interested, I’ll post direct links to them,…
Well, I didn’t expect it to take this long to get to the point of making this blog entry. Busy-ness is happy-ness, or something schmarmy like that… So, I had this Oracle database with 9 independant tablespaces – each one for a different library in this case. The challenge, I am moving them all to…
Wow! What an awesome BCS Championship game last night. Well, OK, maybe it was just the Gators that looked awesome. Sorry, Buckeye fans, it just didn’t look like you fielded a team last night. The Gators just did whatever they wanted last night, and the Buckeyes couldn’t stop them. I bet Troy Smith is *hurting*…
“We are still fighting the Global War on Terror with Solaris 2.5.1”
–Andrew Seely
After a few weeks of holiday season distraction, I’ve finally finished writing Thursday’s notes. This is a time when I wish I could make it look like I posted the blog entry a while ago. 😉