Category: Big Job 2019 Secure boot with Cobbler Sep 10 2019 Creating vSphere VMs with Ansible Jan 30 2019 2018 An Ansible pattern for lists of files Aug 02 2018 An Ansible pattern for parameter configuration May 15 2018 Expanding a ZFS mirror with 4K disks Apr 16 2018 2017 Ansible: Using host info on other hosts Apr 06 2017 2016 Ansible: multiple values in a registered variable Oct 07 2016 2015 Puppet to Ansible Jun 16 2015 Parsing a Twitter archive Mar 11 2015 2014 Computational Pragmatics Dec 03 2014 2013 SLES 11 with mrepo Oct 08 2013 Node inheritance in Puppet Aug 05 2013 CyanogenMod: there and back again Apr 29 2013 Virtual IPs on OpenIndiana Feb 04 2013 UNIX Handbook 4th Edition Jan 23 2013 Linux's Not UNIX Jan 22 2013 2012 Using Augeas with Puppet Oct 12 2012 Ways and means of installing Puppet May 08 2012 Desktop Obsolescence Apr 10 2012 Customer IT support in a nutshell Mar 15 2012 Octopressed Mar 14 2012 Placeholder: migrating a ZFS root pool Feb 04 2012 2011 The benefits of hacking Dec 08 2011 Creating a Solaris 8 Jumpstart image Aug 31 2011 ZFS NAS-related miscellanea Jan 11 2011 Notes on OpenIndiana installs Jan 04 2011 2010 The forty year itch Dec 31 2010 My glorious career (Part 1) Aug 12 2010 Fixing Youtube via proxy on iPhone Jun 10 2010 Puppet and a load of cobblers Mar 15 2010 Olympic curling Feb 22 2010 2009 PhotoPost to Flickr May 16 2009 Backs up Mar 12 2009 2008 Consultants are a bit like bindweed Aug 15 2008 Laptops and Linux Jan 17 2008 2007 The Moron's Guide to Fixing Computer Problems Sep 03 2007 CentOS 5.0 a success? Aug 16 2007 Placeholder: sharing VPN with VMware Aug 10 2007 Beached May 30 2007 Placeholder: WAS performance bugs Apr 27 2007 Once more into the bitch Apr 05 2007 2006 Damn, damn DAM Sep 04 2006 RSS extensions for Seamonkey Aug 23 2006 Smart sharpening in the GIMP redux Jul 12 2006 A worthwhile Fedora upgrade Jun 09 2006 Worst. Upgrade. Ever. Mar 28 2006 IBM cares a lot Jan 31 2006 2005 Automated software update with Cfengine Aug 05 2005 DNS/BIND setup using Cfengine Jul 15 2005 WebSphere on UNIX in print Jun 13 2005 Defending the indefensible Apr 22 2005 Running away from WebSphere Apr 16 2005 Running WebSphere on UNIX Apr 13 2005 A powerhouse monument to human inadequacy Jan 18 2005 The Heidelberg manoeuvre Jan 17 2005 More SARGE patches Jan 11 2005 2004 Admire my impressive extensions Nov 18 2004 Sorry, was that your process? Oct 08 2004 Upgrades considered harmful Sep 20 2004 Techies don't understand Busyness Aug 26 2004 Running WebSphere in a Solaris zone Jul 15 2004 Become a system knowall Jul 08 2004 Oi, where's the ****in' bar, John?! Jun 20 2004 WebSphere 5.1 plugin issues Jun 17 2004 Printing Holy Grail discovered Jun 09 2004 Nagios SNMP plugins May 17 2004 Root yourself to the ground Mar 03 2004 libusb and scanners Feb 20 2004 Turning your back on the world Feb 20 2004 Improving Sun Flash Feb 06 2004 2003 Not Invented Here (yet) Nov 28 2003 Orca performance graphing update Nov 21 2003 My enemy's enemy... Sep 19 2003 Performance graphing redux Sep 12 2003 Upgrading to Red Hat 9 Aug 19 2003 No-Reboot, no kidding Jul 22 2003 configure; make install May 30 2003 Performance graphing on Solaris May 30 2003 Converting Psion audio files May 28 2003 Appropriate response Mar 07 2003 Redirecting the home page URL Feb 25 2003 Installing large SunFreeware packages Feb 25 2003 The Solaris Security Toolkit (JASS) Feb 25 2003 2002 This is just hilarious Aug 01 2002 Uptime, top ranking Jul 11 2002 Finally, a news story that Jun 21 2002 IT definitions of the day Feb 27 2002 2001 I give up. Jun 04 2001 Fear of animals: Apr 28 2001 PDA Blues pt.2 Mar 27 2001 2000 Many years ago, Dec 22 2000 Stuff we like Oct 06 2000 Normally, I think any attempt Sep 25 2000 Slashdot smartarses, dontcha hate 'em? Sep 18 2000