Older Geek Stuff

To keep my homepage shorter, I’ve moved some of my older geek links to this page.

• I say that Devops means Don’t be an A-Hole
• I had the honor of taking part in a Software Packaging Panel at Devopsdays 2011.
• I presented a BayLISA talk about Release Management.
• My brain dump about web hosting vs VPS providers.
• A couple of ways I’ve recently learned to write cleaner perl code.
• Do you ever use metrics as a weapon?
• My thoughts on mentoring and documentation.
• Configuring a cheapo Asus wireless router to act as a DirecTV wireless bridge (with dd-wrt).
• How I stopped worrying and learned to love perl command line scripts.
• Create a command line distribution chart with bash.
• How to solve the problem of poor RSS feeds from wikis.
• A random proposal for a twitter resource identifier (TRI).
• Is it possible to bring DevOps to a large organization?
• Please don’t use mkdir -p in install scripts.
• I use a wiki instead of a blog and that’s ok.
• Wikis I hate every one of you collectively & individually.
• Here’s a perl script bug that got me thinking.
• Debugging a weird hung network connection problem.
• Calculating logfile timestamp offsets with emacs org-mode.
• Wondering about emails from 1969?
• The programmng exercise known as FizzBuzz.
• How to deal with the dovecot X-UID bug.
• Tips on upgrading your Linksys Wireless router to open source.
• How to migrate filesystems to a raid array using LVM.
• How to back up your amazon wishlist to a text file.
• Some tips on converting movies taken with Lumix cameras.
• iLo vs. IPMI - 15 minute comparison of two different remote server management mechanisms.
• Dial phone numbers in SkypeOut directly from your Mac Address Book.
• Notes on setting up my Mac PowerBook
• Linux on the Toshiba Portege 610CT or the Fujitsu N3010 Lifebook
• WristMac
• call2sym
• HelpfulMuttHints
• OneTrueEditor or TheOtherTrueEditor
• TechObservations
• SystemStats
• CantennaExperiment or LifterExperiment
• MyArticles - articles I’ve written for publication