I have been having a lot of problems with $vendor (contact point is named Steve) who sold me a system that does not work well via a local VAR. I have been very happy with the local VAR (contact is Bob) and am even more happier after the following phone conversation:
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I gave an interview to http://myfootpath.com/advice-and-answers/career-interviews/systems-administrator-career-interview/ a while ago. Gives a bit more background on who I am and what I think about System Administration.
I ran into a interesting problem with an internal web application I built several years ago. It would only show a blank page in IE8 and above and in Firefox 4 and greater while other versions of IE8 and Firefox showed the page correctly. There were no errors on the newer browsers. After a bit…
I have to say the the LOPSA-Live session for the Candidates was a great experience. That was my first time ever using IRC. I wasn’t sure how I would do going into it. It was tough getting my thoughts onto a keyboard in that fast of a time frame. I felt like I was lagging….
I really appreciate the number of people who attended the first #lopsa-live candidate forum and apologize for not being able to make it. My answers to the questions are after the split…
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Here is a great website for learning more about the powerful tool of regular expressions: http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html
This script will insert a timestamp at the start of each line you feed it. Example use: vmstat 1 | ./insert_timestamp.pl — cut here — #!/usr/bin/perl # insert a timestamp into the data stream use POSIX strftime; while ($_ = ) { 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…