Review of "Instant Sikuli Test Automation" By Ben Lau, Published by Packt Publishing in their "Instant" series, BIRMINGHAM – MUMBAI, 2013 SBN 978-1-78216-787-7 It is always dangerous applying the word "Instant" to any process requiring download and installation of software. On page four, the authors offer a direct link to the then-current version of Sikuli. …
Had an issue recently where the Windows team needed to remotely re-image a server with WDS, but they didn't have DHCP/PXE servers in that data center. We did have a Linux server running dhcpd for our Linux builds though. We wanted to figure out a way to get the remote server PXE-booted from the Linux…
The LISA conference has a lot of interesting, informative, and invigorating content. Now it's time to add some illumination to it as well! The lightning talks are a great chance for last-minute thoughts to be presented in a public forum. The talks will be from 16:00 to 17:30 on Wednesday the 6th of November,…
Please consider submitting a tutorial or talk (or both) proposal for the 2014 CasITConf. It will be 7 & 8 MAR, 2014 at the Deca in Seattle (same place as this year's conference). https://casitconf.org/casitconf14/call-for-proposals/ Please tell anyone else you think might be interested.
I have long been uncomfortable with the branding of “devops” in what used to be the world of system administration. It’s becoming almost as dynamic and imprecise as the F-word is (just two more parts of speech to go, i think), up there with “cloud” even (someone out there must be proud). Read more: http://rsts11.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/pope-francis-and-devops-on-further-genuflection-rsts11/
edit: Fixed the link to the article There's an interesting article on the LogicWorks Blog titled, "Can (or should) DevOps Do It All?". It's a good read. You should check it out. I have some thoughts on that topic, so I went to comment, but unfortunately, I think their comment system is down, so I've taken…
I feel like I just joined a superhero team…
Looking for challenging Senior Linux/UNIX/VMware/SAN System/Network Administrator position in Manhattan or Central NJ. Available immediately. See www.linkedin.com/in/anatolilomov/
Over the past week, I've learned a new way to go about working with templates, and a new (best practice?) for working with triggers (in templates). The first trick was how to create new templates that are similar to old ones. In the past, I always made use of the Full Clone button, renamed…
Everyone has their favorite monitoring system, or at least they've selected the one they currently hate the least (often one they've never used before). Zabbix is … not mine. Why, do you ask? Configuration is all database. … except for the bits that aren't (proxies) Scalability Bad data handling Customizability When the configuration is all…