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Score one for Opsware

I know I’ve said some bad things about the tool in some past posts but I’ll give credit where credit is due – the global shell in Opsware is amazing – especially when you’re dealing with Windows hosts. To be able to quickly write bash scripts to go across all my Windows hosts to [...]

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Grrrrrr. More Opsware troubles.

The more I use Opsware, the more I don’t understand about this product.
I finally dove into the application configurations which try and use CML ( an Opsware templating language ) to model how a file should look. It’s not the best language by any means but we’ll skip over that small detail for now. [...]

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Twitter for Ubuntu

Now that I’ve got my twitter account updating my facebook status, I hardly go to facebook to update my status.  What this does mean, however, is that I need a good Twitter client whatever operating system I am on at the time ( Ubuntu at work, OS X or Ubuntu at home with an occasional [...]

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Opsware troubles, where art thou Puppet?

Recently, ( or not so recently, really ), my company decided that we needed a configuration management tool – something to rein in the mess that some of our systems are and give us the tools needed to manage and configure our systems in a sane manner.
Now, if you’re new to configuration management you need [...]

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Perfection?

I think so.

What I'm Reading

  • Curse of the Mistrwaith
  • Modern Operating Systems
  • Object Oriented Thought Process
  • Pragmatic Programmer
  • What I'm Playing

  • Assassin's Creed 2
  • Bioshock
  • Modern Warfare
  • Wrath of the Lich King