Virtualization 2.0 So I only came across this buzzword for the first time today. A quick Google search and it became clear that it’s been thrown about for almost two years. Why not call a spade a spade and bang on about “infrastructure virtualisation” instead? Rolling Stone – The Battle For Facebook Short on technical […]
smh.com.au – ACCC thwarts eBay PayPal plan. A win for common sense! “The [ACCC] has flagged its intention to scuttle a plan by online auctioneer eBay to force its Australian users on to a PayPal-only payments system. Citing concerns about the ‘anti-competitive effect’ of the proposal…” Coding Horror: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers Be sure […]
37signals – Git smart: How we’re using Git to track our source code. I’ve been using bzr a lot lately but every man and his dog and their source code seems to be switching to git. Must take a deeper look one of these days. Changing the IP-address of an ESX host and HA – […]
As can be seen from the previous post I’m back! The best bit is that post was created automatically. I use del.icio.us to bookmark interesting things I read day to day. It has support for daily links posted to your blog but that requires XML-RPC support which Blosxom doesn’t have out of the box. So […]
del.icio.us/help/api/posts Blosxom doesn’t have XML-RPC support by default so I’ll need to script an API call to download daily bookmarks. Aaron Straup Cope / Net-Delicious – search.cpan.org Someone may have already done the heavy lifting for me! Publishing Links With Perl, by Jeffrey Veen Just in case I get lazy and need a cheat sheet… […]
Jdub points out a couple of packages which I’m off to install right now. I’ve always redirected to a “one true” FQDN on my websites by using an extra virtualhost container and a redirect rule. libapache2-redirtoservname to the rescue! I don’t use as much PHP as a I used to but I’m sure that what […]
On their blog Signal vs Noise, 37signals has a series of articles covering the work of Ricardo Semler, a business lecturer at MIT. I came to the party late with the most recent one on how to work smarter from an employers and leaders perspective. The three previous articles (linked in reverse chronological order) cover […]
So we use Jabber a lot at work for internal communication. I’ve always used Gaim^WPidgin but with the upgrades flowing through from Ubuntu Hardy I came across what I thought was a bug to do with size of (and ability to resize) the text entry window. But no, it’s a “feature”! The Pidgin ticket has […]
An interesting idea from jimmac via jdub. At home: (marty@merboo)-(03:42:46 Fri Apr 11)-(~) $ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head 106 screen 96 ssh 48 sudo 43 vim 25 ifconfig 25 cd 17 make 12 ls 12 cat 10 iwconfig …and at work: marty@boober:~ $ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in […]
So at $work[0] we’re trying to bring up a new service for a customer. It’s a 2meg service from T, which terminates on our side like so: fibre -> managed media converter -> twisted pair -> router We think we’re ready to turn it up and a T technician is booked. For 01:30am due to […]