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Open Source Monitoring and Me

Over the last year I've been building up servers, services and applications at work. We've rolled out new hardware, OSes and applications on top of them pretty much non-stop since I began here. Keeping tabs on the uptime of these resources has been a task that fell by the wayside. On any given day we have a number of fires to put out and an ever-present list of features to implement in the new systems. For a while we've gotten ...

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My .nanorc file

`set tabsize 4 set autoindent set nowrap set smarthome set tabstospaces include "/usr/share/nano/nanorc.nanorc" include "/usr/share/nano/c.nanorc" include "/usr/share/nano/python.nanorc" include "/usr/share/nano/perl.nanorc" include "/usr/share/nano/html.nanorc" `

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There are two things this world values, money and time. And you can't buy happiness with money.

Words to live by: "There are already enough tools out there; your application does not need a generic layer." (as seen on WorseThanFailure.com)

Booting Linux (or other OSes) from pxe using pxelinux. PXELinux is the network booting equivalent of syslinux for FAT32 linux booting, or isolinux for cd/dvd booting. "...fellow MS followers: after sacrificing your chickens this evening, take this report, go forth, and spread the good news of IE's security!" --Jeff Jones, a security strategy director in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group