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Bootstrapping new Chef nodes without knife bootstrap

March 13, 2013 Jeff Blaine Leave a comment

There may be a time when you don’t want to (or cannot) make use of knife bootstrap to set up…

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

CIFS read performance on Linux < 3.2

February 8, 2013 Jeff Blaine Leave a comment

A story of technical constraints

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Posted in: Sysadmin, UNIX/Linux

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

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