I’ve gone through a bit of a mess lately, trying to do something I considered very possible, only to ultimately fail to find a working solution. This write-up will hopefully save someone else several hours of effort, asking for help, waiting, etc. Those reading the article, please be sure to also read any comments to [...]
Author Archives: JB
Thunderbird 8 rewrote my subject?
December 14, 2011 – 12:41 pm
I have no Thunderbird extensions installed. I sent this message (in blue below) with the subject shown. I received it too, as I was a recipient. I then selected it (as you see above) and replied to it (replying to my own message, to add new info). I didn’t touch the subject line. I sent [...]
Never assume customers will register complaints
November 21, 2011 – 4:46 pm
We’re an enterprisey shop. Our department has no public-facing services. Our shop’s customers are engineer employees at our company, and you could basically consider our department a large lab operations group at a deep-but-slow think tank. This will be a pretty moronic post to anyone involved in providing performant web services for a salary, but [...]
On Pithy Bullshit Analogies
November 14, 2011 – 3:05 pm
I’ve had it with the pithy bullshit analogies, especially via Tweets. Belittling those who productively scrutinize and debate similar software offerings is LAME. I’m so sick of hearing people dismiss “Chef vs. Puppet” discussions (and hundreds of other very valid comparison-style blog posts, etc) as worthless, un-enlightened, and several other holier-than-thou attributions, as if the [...]
Graphite for RHEL 5.7
November 1, 2011 – 8:14 pm
Graphite install for RHEL 5.7 from scratch. Official Graphite documentation is at http://graphite.readthedocs.org/ export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin mkdir -p /graphite/src cd /graphite/src # Download Python 2.7.x source from python.org # Unpackage cd Python-2.7.2 ./configure –prefix=/graphite make make install cd .. # Now make sure you get your python before RHEL’s export PATH=/graphite/bin:$PATH # Download Django 1.x source [...]