I’ve just spent a little time in the Fedora IRC channel. Someone there was asking about tools for managing large numbers of systems; some type of dead simple system, which would require minimal configuration and maintenance, and would also naturally come equipped with a webified interface.
One of the chat participants then offered this piece [...]
January 2, 2009 – 11:56 am
To me, windowing systems are fine things whose sole purpose is to facilitate the opening of multiple text terminal windows. I spend a lot of my $DAYJOB time typing arcana into terminal windows, connected to various systems in our environment.
I’ve previously documented my fondness for Cluster SSH; indeed, I wonder how I survived [...]
The stinking on-call pager weighs only 3 ounces or so. Why do I feel 100 pounds lighter when I get shed of it?
-k-
I’ll be at work then, handing off the stinking on-call pager to the next sad sack sysadmin professional in the barrel rotation.
I think our work group is overstaffed by a huge margin; the silver lining is that there are more candidates for the stinking on-call pager, which limits my exposure.
That’s a Good ThingTM.
-k-
One more time before my emeritus years, I’d dearly love to work with a small group (3-5) of sysadmins who work hard, play hard, and just get stuff done by helping each other out.
This is contrasted to bloated staffs, each member of which gets tasks assigned from a sort of job jar, without [...]
December 10, 2007 – 8:42 pm
I worked like a trooper today, generalizing a several-year-old script which creates metadevices and metadevice mirrors for Solaris Volume Manager. It’s not rocket science, every admin has one, and it was time to make mine more generally useful. To that end, I rearranged my previous script, and abstracted out a set of shell [...]
September 29, 2007 – 3:54 pm
I’m still pondering the fine points of WordPress 2.3 tagging. Or maybe I’ve not progressed to where I’m even entitled to contemplate the fine points.
If I have any regrets about my many years in information technology, it’s that I’m not as fluent in web apps, and the coding thereof, as I’d [...]
September 8, 2007 – 4:36 am
Barely tenable work situations, combined with living in a place one detests, compels one to seek other opportunities. Over the weekend, the search begins.
I’ve said/thought/blogged about it before, but this time, it’s for real.
So, if my small but loyal group of readers knows of anyone needing a good, blue-collar mentality sysadmin, contact me using [...]
September 4, 2007 – 11:14 pm
I spent today at home, tending to a tender left foot. and decided to clean out my Delicious bookmarks. I dropped the bookmark count from 941 to around 645, and painstakingly retagged the balance of them into at least a semblance of order.
Here’s an example of my new tag structure : RedHat.SysAdmin.Tools.ssh. This is [...]
August 27, 2007 – 11:38 pm
Guess what I came home with tonight?
The stinking on-call pager. The junior putz admin who was scheduled for the duty was a no-show today; turns out today was his AWS1 Day.
He neglected to note his AWS day on the group calendar; he didn’t call, stop by to pick up the pager, or a damn thing. [...]
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