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 […]

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 […]

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 […]