RANCID, the “Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ” (nice backronym, eh?) is a program that periodically goes out and fetches the config files from your routers / switches / many other devices that it supports. If you manage any of these type of devices, and do not currently use RANCID, well, all I can say […]
The other day, I ran across oDesk, which is a site where contractors (”Providers”) can offer their services and clients (”Buyers”) can find them. Providers can take free tests to show their skills. The site also facilitates payments, etc.
Quite interesting - I’ll have to try it out at some point. One thing I notice is […]
As many of you know, I’m a big fan of XenEnterprise as a virtulization platform, as it’s based on open source software, and just makes it a lot nicer to manage. For some reason, it just seems to make a lot more sense to me than VMware ESX when I’m trying to debug a problem […]
A few weeks ago, a coworker pointed out Mosso, which bills itself as “The Hosting Cloud”. Looks like a really interesting service - basically like shared hosting that will scale forever; no need to worry about individual servers, etc.
If you are just hosting a generic php/rails/etc site that gets a lot of traffic, it looks […]
Last week, my HTC Kaiser dropped off my belt in a cold, cold parking lot, and sat there for about four hours before I was able to come back and get it. Gah! It worked OK, except for a big crack on the bottom half of the screen. Gah! After a couple days, the crack […]
ok, this site is cool:
http://www.revfad.com/flip.html
A friend invited me to a new site - Notchup. Basically, you set up a profile, post some details, and in theory employers who are looking for employees like you will actually pay to interview you. Interesting! I might be a little bit more interested in listening to recruiters if they are willing to pay […]
Where I live (Savage, MN), I don’t have much of a choice for high-speed internet other than Mediacom. They are the local cable company.. I don’t qualify for DSL, the wifi services in the area don’t reach me, and a T1 is just too expensive (and slow!).
Unfortunately, they have been having outage after outage (they […]
Well, the project that I’ve been working (with a large team) on for the last two months or so at work has finally gone into public beta - check it out at slantly.com.
Basically, slantly is a site where you can post an opinion, and other people can either agree or disagree with it, and provide […]
I’ve received a few requests over time about how to manage a Dell PowerVault 660F from Linux hosts, most recently from a nice guy named Robert. He reminded me that I really should post some information on this here, as it can be hard to find.
Standard Disclaimer: If you follow any of my tips and […]
As many of you know, I’ve recently moved positions at work, and am now the primary systems administrator for an extremely smart group of people who are working on rolling out some new products.
Nifty technologies we’ve been working with:
Hadoop
Ruby on Rails
Amazon EC2
Other cool technologies we’ve looked at, but are not using quite yet:
AppLogic
If you are […]
AT&T (ex-Cingular) has now turned 3g on in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area! What a pleasant surprise after getting the WM6 treatment yesterday. ;)
They’ve made me a happy customer.
Windows Mobile 6 is *finally* available for the (HTC-built) AT&T 8525! Yeehaw!
It’s available from here:
http://www.america.htc.com/support/8525/software-downloads.html
First impressions:
It’s fast
The GPS sharing feature works nicely
Looks about the same. Menus are very similar.
Upgrade was easy [just back your stuff up!]; highly recommended so far!
Bandwidth.com had an outage last night, from around 4:10pm central to around 6:30 central. It affected all of their SIP trunks. Interesting! Apparently, it was attributed to a Level3 outage, but it doesn’t appear that other VoIP trunks with other L3 resellers went down. We’ll see…
This one is purely for the geeks, and I’m just posting it because I couldn’t find a definitive answer on the web: if you have a Cisco 2801 and want to add more memory (there is 128mb soldered on the board), standard pc133 sodimm memory (ie, the same kind you use in older laptops) will […]
If you try to compile the nvidia kernel module on 2.6.20 or higher kernels that have paravirt_ops enabled (like the Debian kernels), you will run into a problem - it’ll complain that a non-GPL compatible license is using the GPL-only code paravirt_ops. I finally found a workaround (other than building the kernel without paravirt ops) […]
I’ve gotten tired of my custom-written MySQL app to handle my resume, so I decided to scrap it and try out xml-resume-library to maintain it. It’s quite interesting, and I think the results are pretty good.. my resume page has been converted over to it, check it out!
One of the really cool things that this […]
Tiff and I are taking a trip to Texas in March for a family reunion thingy, and I really wanted to get some sort of navigation system for while we are down there. On a whim, I tried out TomTom’s PDA edition, with a QStarz bluetooth GPS. I’ve been really shocked at how well it […]
Tiff and I recently decided to start using Google Calendar to start organizing our lives.. it’s been going pretty good so far. I’m currently using a Cingular 8125 Pocket PC for my cell phone, and wanted to be able to sync the Google calendars down to the phone. After experimenting with many programs, I finally […]
I’ve seen a wide gamut of those “control panel” things for hosting providers, and most of the ones I’ve looked at, I haven’t liked. They usually cost tons of money, use software I hate (ie, qmail), and do not integrate well with my preferred distribution (Debian). I ran across one today that seems to work […]
