Perspectives on DevOps, Technology, Science, Philosophy, and Society
Category dedicated to knowledge and reference materials spanning all topics, including books, essays, and news articles. Reviews, comments, or opinion pieces may also be included.
I decided to write a very small disk usage reporting script that provides some extra information than does just using ‘du‘ directly. The script of course uses du, among other command line tools and parsing commands to generate the little …
Tiny linux disk usage reporting script – dux.bash Read more »
The universe is accelerating away from the center of the Big Bang. The universe is cooling down, because galaxies are moving away from each other. The number of stars in the sky will diminish over time, there will eventually be …
Our Galaxy is a Seed that Will Eventually Grow into it’s Own Universe Read more »
Arrested DevOps: Operationalizing Open Source With Michael Hedgpeth And Doug Ireton – ADO70 by How to Instructional Podcast on the Tech Podcast Network https://player.fm/1gEMFZ #nowplaying
When I was using perl as my primary development language, I had a platform of tools in place to make my perl development fun and productive. This included tools like Perl::Dancer, DBIx::Class, cpanm, and perlbrew. Perlbrew was a tool I …
rbenv and multiple local ruby version installs (like perlbrew) Read more »
Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/9135/how-to-backup-settings-and-list-of-installed-packages Warning: Read about caveats in the link above before use #——————————————————- ## The backup script dpkg –get-selections > ~/Package.list sudo cp -R /etc/apt/sources.list* ~/ sudo apt-key exportall > ~/Repo.keys rsync –progress /home/`whoami` /path/to/user/profile/backup/here ## The Restore Script rsync …
It doesn’t matter whether you are a senior engineer, a team lead, or an IT manager – eventually you will encounter the situation. A meeting or discussion that becomes slightly more animated than usual. Opinions are strong, and it is …
Expressing Your Authority May Be Working Against You Read more »
Externalization and Deduplication Developers who understand the concepts of modularity and deduplication should immediately recognize the power behind being able to include settings and commands from external files. It is seriously counter-productive to maintain multiple scripts or playbooks that …
Ansible Playbooks – Externalization and Deduplication Read more »
This article is in response to the following question posted in the Perl community group on LinkedIn: I’m new to PERL and trying to understand recursive subroutines. Can someone please explain with an example (other than the factorial ;) ) …
I manage a few personal mail relays that I use for relaying my own mail and for experimentation purposes (mail logs are a great source of unique and continuously flowing data that can you use to try out different ideas …
Managing Your SMTP Relay With Postfix – Correctly Rejecting Mail for Non-local Users Read more »
Cross-post from LinkedIn, in response to How Seeking ‘Free’ Works Against Our Career Success: I cannot completely agree here. There are many who offer free advice that also happens to be good advice. Alternatively, it is important for advice seekers …
Cross-post from LinkedIn, in response to Stephen Hawking: Black Holes May Not Have ‘Event Horizons’ After All: So relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXh9RQCvxmg Stephen Colbert interviews Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. The entire interview (starts about 6 mins in) is just a wholly wonderful …
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life …
Last night I attended a talk given by Dr. Damian Conway (of Perl Best Practices fame) titled “Fun With Dead Languages“. Although this is a talk that Damian had given previously, it is the first time that I heard it, …
Cross-post from LinkedIn, in response to Maybe Big Brother Isn’t As Bad as You Think: “This is a future Orwell could not have predicted. And Big Brother may turn out to be a pretty nice guy.” I respectfully disagree. As …
My weekly digest of sites, blogs, tools and other URLs which I’ve recently bookmarked for personal reference.
From Lawerence Lessig’s blog:
Michio Kaku explains why gasoline, while still a terrible pollutant, is still a highly efficient energy resource. httpv://youtu.be/PewMgx753G0
Mmm.. Deep-fried savoury triangles… With a side of beef balls and bean stick. Doesn’t that sound appetizing?
This is just amazing. A facinating merger of painted art, story-telling, and animation. You’re welcome :) The artist behind this awesome display is Thijme Termaat (pronounced ‘tie-muh’ ‘tir-maat’). If you are interested in learning more about his work, visit his …
An article talking about the issue of climate change research, and how governments may be actively preventing the findings from reaching the general public. “I suspect the federal government would prefer that its scientists don’t discuss research that points out …
Canadian government is ‘muzzling its scientists’ Read more »
For you Street Fighter 2 fans.. I’m sorry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGJxWOWpXpw Now that I’ve updated my Arch Linux 64 desktop with some newer packages, I’ve come across a few surprises. For one, that XMBC works! I was so peeved when I couldn’t get it to work before. XMBC is an …
Now Listening: Deadmau5 – Faxing Berlin (Grifta Dubstep Remix) Read more »
So I watched Limitless the other day on the advice of good friend. (spoiler alert) It was awesome. Limitless, starring Bradley Cooper as Edward “Eddie” Morra, explores a world where a pharmaceutical company has manufactured pills that, when ingested, allows …
Every once in a while I get into discussions with various people about computer programming concepts such as objects, classes, data-types, methods, and functions. Sometimes these discussions result in questions about the definition of these terms from those who have …
Understanding the Concepts of Classes, Objects, and Data-types in Computer Programming Read more »
Most bacterial infections can be treated with antibiotics such as penicillin, discovered decades ago. However, such drugs are useless against viral infections, including influenza, the common cold, and deadly hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola. Now, in a development that could …
Carl Sagan continues to be one of my greatest teachers. Everyone should know about his teachings and work. Sadly, our politics and our religions tend to filter the truth that Carl has tried so hard to make us see. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxlPVSAnWOo
So today I was working on setting up a trac instance behind a reverse proxy, and found that it could be done quite easily under Apache 2. Apache 2 allows you to set up your reverse proxy in a variety …
Looks like the Canada Post strike is over, for now. I don’t know if it would be wise for Canada Post to strike again. It’s crossed my mind several times, as I’m sure it has crossed the minds of others, …
So I’m sitting here in front of my 28-inch I-INC monitor again, after the longest while. A couple of months ago we decided to mount the I-INC on the wall in our bedroom, and move the 32-inch Samsung LCD TV …
Coke Zero taste in my mouth, and my legs are rather numb Read more »
Bell Canada and other big telecom companies can now freely impose usage-based billing on independent Internet Service Providers (indie ISPs) and YOU. This means we’re looking at a future where ISPs will charge per byte, the way they do with …
I’m starting to think that more and more people are falling back to religious beliefs and traditions because they begin to believe that once you become secular or atheist, that the world has no meaning, that things are as they …
So I just found that someone hacked into my web server recently, I’m not sure when they started poking around, but I saw some significant activity around December 17th. I say “hacked” instead of “cracked” or defaced/damaged because I haven’t …
Since the last TPM meeting in October, some of the TPM members have been working diligently to improve the CPAN search experience by re-architecting CPAN search from the bottom up. I’ve joined the design team in the hopes of providing …
Sometimes it’s so difficult to explain something so simple. It’s not actually difficult to explain, but the person trying to understand needs to clear their mind of all preconceptions and assumptions in order to attain greater understanding.
So if you haven’t heard of Jolicloud http://www.jolicloud.com/, then you need to download and install it now. It’s an Ubuntu based OS (a self-proclaimed “Cloud OS”) specifically designed for Netbooks, and it rocks. I have Jolicloud installed on my Samsung …
The Problem The time had come for me to “invest” in getting some new equipment. The only workstation that I had up until recently was a company laptop which I had toted back and forth between VMware and my home …
I’ve been using Xymon (formerly known as “Hobbit”) for a long time. In most situations, I have Xymon running in a redundant configuration, with two or more instances of Xymon working together to monitor a network. Even though Xymon works …
Currently Xmonad is my window manager of choice, because it’s clean, functional, and removes all the unnecessary crap that most modern desktops usually come with by default. Although Xmonad is very cool, there are still some things that it’s lacking …
Using DZEN with Xmonad to view Currently Active Network Shares Read more »
Well, my Blackberry is officially offline because of a nationwide blackberry outage currently taking place. I use my Blackberry to receive messages from monitoring systems at VMware, so I’m severely pissed. I haven’t received any e-mails for several hours! The …
Nationwide Blackberry Outage – 22/23 December 2009 Read more »
The way things are these days, you’d think that I, like I would imagine many other people in the world, would be thinking about money, the recession, the potential for war between countries who have been flirting with the bomb, …
Recession, War, Politics, Poverty…. Software Development? Read more »