Archive for January, 2010
Getting things done - one year on
It’s been a year since I started using Getting Things Done methodology. Even whilst reading the book I couldn’t wait to get started.
How has the last year worked out? Do I still use GTD or was it just a flash in the pan, a fad destined to die a death?
“Brilliant” would sum it [...]
Posted: January 20th, 2010 under Life.
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Puppet compatibility - or lack of
Whilst playing with the puppet-dashboard I noticed some warning notices in my puppetmaster logs. Now all file resource types must prefix “module” (although templates don’t need to!).
It’s only a small change, but please can these things be done a bit more sanely? By this I mean a documented approach to [...]
Posted: January 18th, 2010 under Linux, Linux Rants.
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rsync and web browsing
Surfing the web can be slow (I’m not bitter about being 1/2 mile from the rollout of Fibre To The Cabinet in Basingstoke, oh no).
There are various tricks currently in use:
Expiry headers which say that data will be valid until a certain time has elapsed. This is great for things such as images [...]
Posted: January 17th, 2010 under Idea.
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