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   by atsaloli 10y ago

   Fair enough. :)
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   by atsaloli 10y ago

   About 9 years ago, while working as a system administration consultant, I had a gig to fly a portable hard drive with about 360 GB from LA to St. Louis as part of a migration of a web application. It was faster than the network connections
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   by atsaloli 10y ago

   Sure, just use --partial switch: --partial keep partially transferred files
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   by atsaloli 10y ago

   Yep, when I worked in the film industry, we used Aspera or GridFTP (open source).
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   by atsaloli 10y ago

   If you have a high-bandwidth link and are in a hurry, use GridFTP ( http://toolkit.globus.org/toolkit/docs/latest-stable/gridftp... ), otherwise just use rsync. Scientific institutions that need to transfer lar
6. 486.▲
   by atsaloli 10y ago

   If you want any help with your immigration, I recommend Robert K. Steain in Sydney. http://www.rksteainmigration.com.au/ He can give a free consultation. (I'm a US citizen with Aussie permanent residency. He helped
7. 487.▲
   by atsaloli 10y ago

   @dijit, if you want to improve your relationships, practice the Golden Rule ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule ), treat others as you would want to be treated, and don't treat them the way you wouldn'
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   by atsaloli 10y ago

   CFEngine for configuration management. CFEngine is a promise engine -- you can see what promises about the system state have been verified, which have been repaired and which couldn't be repaired. I like the insight into infrastructur
9. 489.▲
   by atsaloli 10y ago

   Right. :) And you are welcome!
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    Phoenix servers. See http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ImmutableServer.html Personally, I believe this is a non-confront of the complexity inherent in modern systems. It's a cop out! You're just saying, we don
11. 491.▲
    by atsaloli 10y ago

    Every empire has its rise and fall. "To every thing there is a season ... A time to be born, and a time to die"
12. 492.▲
    by atsaloli 10y ago

    Thanks!
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    There are plenty of Fortune 500 companies using CFEngine as well. I'm consulting for a Fortune 10 company using it at massive scale. However its role in a container-centric role will be reduced -- it'll run on the infrastructure
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    What is the "cm", please?
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    Exactly. My employee is going to do the travel from now on as much as possible. He's younger. :)
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    After six years of doing it on the side, I'm now doing it full-time (for a year and a half) and have one employee/apprentice (for the last half year). I provide IT training and consulting. Started out with CFEngine, now offering G
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    Sounds like 3N which is now Everbridge. http://www.everbridge.com/
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    I got a 2nd generation X1 Carbon Touch and while I love how light and powerful it is, I'm surprised how short the battery life is (sometimes it runs out of juice while I'm on the road - NOT OK) and the quiet when I turn it off (wh
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    I prefer syntax-coloring -- makes it easier to catch errors quickly, as the colors go all wonky if I miss a parens or a double quote, etc. This way I can catch the error right in the editor, before it ever hits the parser.
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    by atsaloli 11y ago

    Yay! Glad you enjoyed it.
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    by atsaloli 11y ago

    Dr Holzmann's "The Power of 10: Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code" was published in June 2006 issue of IEEE Computer Society "Computer" magazine. It is a small standard, easy to understand and remember; mech
22. 502.▲
    by atsaloli 11y ago

    Article author here. I'm a sysadmin so my programming mind may have translated "switch" (C) to "case" (bash). Fixed. Thanks for the catch!
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    by atsaloli 11y ago

    I second the recommendation for Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails tutorial, https://www.railstutorial.org/book You can learn enough on Michael's website http://www.learnenough.com/
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    You should read manuals like you read love letters (1982)(robelle.com)

    16 points by atsaloli 11y ago|1 comments
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    by atsaloli 11y ago

    I take a walk and look at things to extrovert my attention (get myself out of my head/feelings). Bit of exercise helps as well (e.g. go for a run). After 30 minutes, I'm usually sweating and feeling much better.
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    The website of Bob Bemer, the Father of ASCII(bobbemer.com)

    19 points by atsaloli 11y ago|6 comments
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    by atsaloli 11y ago

    Start with "how computers work" http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/078974984X/
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    by atsaloli 11y ago

    And modern (three-point) seat belts! http://jalopnik.com/volvo-gave-away-their-most-important-inv...
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    by atsaloli 11y ago

    Almost. RC1 is out. The blog post said 9.5 will be out next year (January?) http://www.postgresql.org/
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    by atsaloli 11y ago

    I find the T-shaped approach workable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills The generalization enables learning new skills/technologies faster and helps with problem-solving; the specialization helps with