January 5, 2010 – 8:25 pm
Happy New Year, y’all. Today was my first day back at $DAYJOB, and I’d frankly be hard pressed to say that we haven’t been stuck with a used year. This could be the year that I define a new $DAYJOB metric, or maybe two. The first is $DAYJOB TDS1, and the second would be $DAYJOB [...]
It’s my week in the barrel with the stinking on-call pager yet again. I detest the stinking on-call pager; the events to which I respond are either:
Trivial – stuff that shouldn’t happen – full filesystems come to mind. Properly managed systems never have full filesystems. When the event occurs, something is definitely amiss; alas, [...]
As documented here, $DAYJOB is detracting from my blogging a bit. I pour most of my vim and vigor into the now required Daily Status Report. I arbitrarily added a couple of sections to my DSR; Observations, Mood, and Thought for the Day. These sections are used for unsolicited editorial comments, at least [...]
It’s the 10th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. My company is taking us to lunch tomorrow at Famous Dave’s, who is celebrating their 15th year of Smokin’ Hot Ribs & Ice Cold Beer. My company is nice like that.
Unfortunately, this being a lunch and all, the Smokin’ Hot Ribs will have [...]
One of my co-workers1 is evidently on his annual two-week sabbatical to North Carolina’s Outer Banks. I say this, based on a careful analysis of my server access logs and my Sitemeter reports2, which reveal a sharp downturn in accesses from his home 20, and an elevation in hits from around the OBX.
And I hope [...]
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 [...]
My blogging output is sagging a bit, partially because of the required filing of a daily status report at $DAYJOB. The requirements were to submit it via either:
Microsoft Word1
email2
Instead, I submit mine via TicklerWiki, outfitted with a snapshot plugin. I take the daily report, export it from the wiki to HTML, and forward that [...]
No matter how big of a goat screw it is at work, and it’s approaching the three ring variety, there’s one thing they can’t take away.
Today, I passed the stinking on-call pager off to the next poor sap.
I’m enjoying the extra spring in my step already.
-k-
I just got back from the nearby Safeway. They have a branch bank on-premise; I went to get some cash from the ATM, and to deposit a paper check. Their cashier windows are open on Sunday afternoon, a convenience of modern times. I’m old school enough that I don’t trust ATMs [...]
As I near the end of a fairly quiet week with the stinking on-call pager, I just got paged on an incident that’s not my problem. Our NOC is there 24×7, staring into an array of consoles, dutifully ready to page someone if something goes awry. There are all kinds of groups [...]
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