A simple matter of…

At the end of this week I’m off to LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco.
I’ll be there as we are now partners of Altinity. Altinity make Opsview - which is a customised Nagios. In particular it is much easier to setup and administer - there are many great features including:
* [...]

I struggled most of Friday and for a few more hours tonight (and probably more time last week I can’t recall) on setting up GFS for work. GFS is a cluster filesystem - where more than one box share the filesystem amongst themselves - useful for HA (High Availability) clustering.
Now an additional complexity here [...]

Today I finally remembered to take my camera along to one of our customers. Since I’m only there a few days a week I don’t have a proper desk, however the desk I do have is right against the window - I only have to look up (or down since it’s on the 7th [...]

At least in my experience.
In fact, I don’t like Cisco:

you can’t get new VPN clients without a license agreement (which then means you need a friendly network guy)
they just don’t seem to fix bugs
and then they threaten people when they point out unpatched security holes

I suppose this comes from having to deal [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been using puppet to manage my machines at home - deploying config files, packages etc. Just search for “puppet” and you’ll find my earlier posts.
This was in preparation for rolling it out at a customer which we’ve now done. The timescale is now:

add machine to puppet manifest, [...]

Today a friend^W aquaintance^W some bloke asked if I’d run Xen in production. My answer was “no, not really”. I do use it a fair bit, but I’m reluctant to but anything critical on it since I’ve had a problem a few times (as has this friend) where I received the dreaded “unable [...]

I’ve been doing a bit of interviewing recently and generally I’ve been very unimpressed with the candidates. I’ve seen CVs so poorly written (or retyped by agencies) that I’d personally dismiss them there and then (this is _after_ someone else has already weeded out the worst culprits). The biggest problem by far though [...]

Well after being without email for just about four full business days, it’s finally been resolved.
Last night about 10pm I received a phone call asking if the new mailbox was okay. Well I had a look via IMAP once they told me the details (it hadn’t been enabled) and it was _very_ unhappy. [...]

So, I woke up hoping that the corruption would have been fixed. But no Instead I got a reply saying that they hadn’t found any corruption (but they obviously havn’t tried IMAP….) They suggested two approaches:

reboot. disable anti-virus. create new profile
they’d recreate the account and merge the data back [...]

Well that’s had the desired effect, 30-40 mins after sending an email to Mr Greeson, he replies. An hour later and I receive a phone call which explains _why_ they want my password. Which is that their main support staff don’t have sufficient access rights. Alternatively it could be passed to someone [...]