TomLimoncelli

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by TomLimoncelli 15y ago
I'm not sure how email would help. I guess you mean the system would email you once a day saying that the monitoring system is working and if you don't see the email you know to check into it. The monitoring system I use has a higher SLA
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by TomLimoncelli 15y ago
"Sysadmins and devs shouldn't really care if they have five generations of hardware." I wish it was true. sadly there are some services where scale and latency is so carefully measured that individual software releases are rejected if perf
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by TomLimoncelli 15y ago
Yes, very constructive. A more detailed reply: 3) really? the core of devops is to be data-driven in your decisions. how can you decide if you are maintaining the right uptime if you don't measure it? 8) I agree with you, as does the text
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by TomLimoncelli 15y ago
I dunno, that felt like bragging. By the way... I'll be teaching a class based on The Test at Usenix LISA in December. Also... I'm working on an edited/corrected update to The Test and I appreciate all the feedback I'm getting here on HN!
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by TomLimoncelli 15y ago
I read it this January after hearing it mentioned so many times. I was very impressed. My impressions were: 1. Ah, that's what it would have been like to attend a GOOD university! 2. Much of the systems knowledge I learned the hard way ar
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by TomLimoncelli 15y ago
Yes, someone may have joined the network at your old IP address but that's ok. That first ARP is going to determine if that has happened already. Am I right? The author should try the same ethernet sniffing experiment but put a machine at
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by TomLimoncelli 15y ago
OH MY GOD! THIS GUY WANTS ME TO CHANGE THE WAY I WORK! I"VE BEEN WORKING THE SAME WAY FOR 20 YEARS YOU CAN"T MAKE ME CHANGE! CHANGE SCARES ME! 20 YEARS AGO MY TERMINAL DIDN"T HAVE LOWERCASE, COLOR, OR WINDOWS. WHY HE WANT ME TO CHANGE!!?!
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by TomLimoncelli 16y ago
As the co-author of TPoSaNA I am flattered but for the question at hand, I'd recommend a different book. Time Management for System Administrators from O'Reilly is more in line with what he's looking for. http://www.tomontime.com/ and h
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Lists of length 1, 2, 3 and 4 have special meaning(everythingsysadmin.com)
2 points by TomLimoncelli 16y ago|0 comments
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by TomLimoncelli 16y ago
I worked at AT&T / Bell Labs when those commercials were flooding every show on TV. Bell Labs was upset because AT&T made those commercials without consulting us. A PR company thought up all the ideas. We had zero projects interna
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by TomLimoncelli 16y ago
The zillions of little companies with this kind of problem disagree.
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Your computer room will overheat next weekend(everythingsysadmin.com)
51 points by TomLimoncelli 16y ago|22 comments
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New Jersey sysadmin conference creates meme to promote event. Enlists non-geeks(everythingsysadmin.com)
5 points by TomLimoncelli 17y ago|0 comments