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On Pithy Bullshit Analogies

November 14, 2011 Jeff Blaine Leave a comment

I’ve had it with the pithy bullshit analogies, especially via Tweets. Belittling those who productively scrutinize and debate similar software…

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Graphite for RHEL 5.7

November 1, 2011 Jeff Blaine 2 Comments

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…

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Explaining Syslog to RH Support

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Were my expectations too high? Support, what RHEL service is logging this? rhnsd? yum-updatesd? It should show the process name…

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twm Shirt

August 26, 2011 Jeff Blaine Leave a comment

Paying homage to the classic Tab/Tom’s Window Manager, it’s the twm shirt, available with no markup in cost toward my…

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Posted in: Sysadmin, UNIX/Linux

Adjusting a PostgreSQL Sequence

August 8, 2011 Jeff Blaine Leave a comment

I recently had the unfortunate task at work of copying most of a production PostgreSQL database to a development server.…

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Posted in: Database, Sysadmin

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