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kill, kill, and KILL AGAIN!!
Mac drop problem was thermal shock. Desk is no longer in kitchen/DR area, under cold HVAC, so basically can’t run iMac G5 when house ambient temp is 75-plus. #$%@!! Cracking it open and blowing the...
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now that is a first for me…
…though not for a number of friends. Still, I’m easily amused. I HAS A AMAZON LISTING. w00t!
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Intro to Patterns
Here is a brief introduction to Patterns, and thoughts on IT pattern creation (PDF) presented at BayLISA in December of 1998, and, if memory serves, as a Works-in-Progress at LISA that year.
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"But will it scale?"
Doing some remedial reading on this summer’s Great Twitter Scaling Kerfuffle, found a great quote from Phil at Progressive Data Solutions, in his writeup on Railsconf: “To me, this question is a...
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Stripes vs. Spots: Staying with Tiger on the Mac
I’ve been on a grand unification quest to find all the duplicates and old versions and generally clean the heck up on my desktop Mac, in preparation for a clean full “reference” backup and then a...
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Both books now published and available!
The Practice of System and Network Administration, 2nd Edition (Limoncelli, Hogan, Chalup) Handbook of Network and System Administration
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Mac OS DNS fix for Second Life
I’d been completely stumped earlier this year while attempting to try Second Life– the Mac client just “no va”, wouldn’t go, for me. I got an error suggesting that my DNS was busted and that I should...
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Liveblogging LISA’07
So here I am in Dallas TX, at the annual LISA conference for systems administrators. It’s been a great conference so far, even though I haven’t gotten out of the hotel since I arrived on Sunday...
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Chalup PM Book in Progress!
Over the past 6 years I’ve taught literally hundreds of sysadmins, network admins, and other IT professionals the fundamentals of a streamlined project management process that I call “Practical Project...
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We’re back!
After a long negotiation process between my DNS provider and the registrar of the domain thieves, virtual.net is back where it has belonged since early 1993: with me. Huzzah! My advice, in retrospect,...
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