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Another case for in-place file editing in CM tools

January 29, 2013 Jeff Blaine Leave a comment

Our UNIX/Linux directory services (nss) data was migrated from NIS in LDAP in 2009. Those who never administered a NIS…

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Posted in: Sysadmin

Solarized and Modern PuTTY Defaults

December 24, 2012 Jeff Blaine Leave a comment

I pushed this today: A Windows registry (.reg) file for setting the “Default Settings” PuTTY profile to Solarized Dark PuTTY…

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Posted in: Programming, Sysadmin, UNIX/Linux

Discipline

August 13, 2012 Jeff Blaine Leave a comment

Stolen directly from one of Theo Schlossnagle’s presentation slides: Discipline is important in any job. Discipline is “controlled behavior resulting…

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Posted in: DevOps, Sysadmin, UNIX/Linux

Safer yum

June 4, 2012 Jeff Blaine Leave a comment

We got sick of yum hanging on corrupt RPM databases. Though @scoot suggests, instead, running a rebuild-if-needed cron job on…

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Posted in: Linux, Sysadmin, UNIX/Linux

Parasitic Losses

April 20, 2012 Jeff Blaine 1 Comment

Subtitle: “Derrrr … alert on stuff.”

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Posted in: DevOps, Linux, Sysadmin, UNIX/Linux

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