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by atsaloli 14y ago
You might want to also take a look at CFEngine, which inspired Puppet and Chef. See "Relative Origins of Puppet, Chef and CFEngine" http://verticalsysadmin.com/blog/uncategorized/relative-orig...
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by atsaloli 14y ago
Could you elaborate about these subtle but very important differences, please?
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by atsaloli 14y ago
http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/MySQL_vs_PostgreSQL MySQL vs PostgreSQL - an objective comparison
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CFEngine vs. Puppet: huge difference in scalability(blogcompiler.com)
4 points by atsaloli 14y ago|0 comments
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Data Visualization Challenge for consumer behavior data. 10K USD prize.(innocentive.com)
2 points by atsaloli 14y ago|0 comments
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by atsaloli 14y ago
I agree. In fact, vi is a standard UNIX utility - see the POSIX-1.2008 specification: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/vi... vim is the most popular implementation of vi, with lots of added bells and whistles I'd
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by atsaloli 14y ago
You are most welcome.
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by atsaloli 14y ago
Which control characters? And you say around file names... did you run "ls" while in your script session? if you generated colorized output, script will record that. If you don't want colorized output, run "\ls" (bypass any alias you migh
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Speeding up your hacking: putting Esc and Tab keys back where they belong(lopsa.org)
1 points by atsaloli 14y ago|0 comments
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by atsaloli 14y ago
My pleasure, you're welcome!
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by atsaloli 14y ago
If you'd like to make sure you know all your vi basics, I recommend my presentation "Vi Basics" at http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/vi/class/ -- it is based on Bill Joy's original paper introducting vi and covers the basics of vi according
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by atsaloli 14y ago
htsql is a next-generation query language built on top of SQL - you can express in severals lines of htsql what would be a screenful of SQL. www.htsql.org
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by atsaloli 14y ago
I'd like to recommend "Web Operations" by Allspaw http://www.amazon.com/Web-Operations-Keeping-Data-Time/dp/14...
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by atsaloli 14y ago
Please read the author's introduction: "An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi" http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/vi/vi_editor__bill_joy.pdf I also recommend the O'Reilly "Learning the vi and vim editors" book, http://shop.oreilly.co
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Commercialization of TCP/IP - a historical perspective from an insider(verticalsysadmin.com)
2 points by atsaloli 15y ago|0 comments
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by atsaloli 15y ago
Well, shaggy, from my talking to sysadmins at large, most are not using any kind of automated configuration management at all. They are using ssh for loops, and that's their automation. Pushing changes. So when I say configuration managem
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by atsaloli 15y ago
Thanks for your thoughtful reply, Kevin. I agree with you on the version numbering, on incrementing the middle number for bigger changes. I'll talk to the CFEngine, Inc. guys about bundling my example config files into the package, having
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by atsaloli 15y ago
Thanks for bringing up this important area, Kevin. This is a relatively new and growing field and there is definitely lots of room for improvement. I was surprised you found "severe incompatibilities" between point releases of CFEngine 3 -
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by atsaloli 15y ago
http://www.DownsizeDC.org/ Mission: We believe the federal government has grown too centralized, too intrusive, and too expensive. We believe in constitutional limits, smaller government, civil liberties, federalism, and low taxes. We wa
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Sys Admin Advent Calendar(sysadvent.blogspot.com)
3 points by atsaloli 15y ago|0 comments
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by atsaloli 15y ago
Yup. "id" is pretty good for that too, and is shorter to type. Give it a whirl.
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by atsaloli 15y ago
htsql (www.htsql.org) is a business reporting language -- one line in htsql can generate 5 or 6 lines of SQL. This query could be condensed considerably if rewritten in htsql. (htsql automatically generates SQL code that covers all corner c
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by atsaloli 15y ago
I don't know where this 1.5% inflation figure is coming from. I am seeing a 10-40% (or more) increase in food prices when shopping for groceries. Bottle of hydrogen peroxide used to cost $1.69 a year ago, now costs 2 dollars. I don't bel
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by atsaloli 15y ago
You might want to take a look at CFEngine too. It's in that puppet/chef family: http://verticalsysadmin.com/blog/uncategorized/relative-orig... And Bcfg2. Not to discourage you from innovating; just so you know what's out there today.
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by atsaloli 15y ago
Speaking of dependencies, CFEngine 3 is written in C and has 3 dependencies: berkeley db, libcrypo, and PCRE. It compiles into small binaries and is usable anywhere - in the cloud, on supercompute clusters, on the desktop or laptop, on a sm
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by atsaloli 15y ago
Thank you for the positive feedback. And I'll try to tone my next post better so it comes across as eager rather than shameless. Yours truly, Aleksey
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by atsaloli 15y ago
For those getting started with Configuration Management, I would recommmend "Getting Started with Configuration Management" by Cory Lueninghoener (in April 2011 issue of USENIX ;login: magazine): http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2
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by atsaloli 15y ago
I've been working on improving getting-started information for CFEngine 3. Check out www.verticalsysadmin.com/cfengine.htm - especially the "Getting Started with CFEngine 3" guide, and the "Guide to CFEngine Body of Knowledge". I also hold
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by atsaloli 15y ago
I learned at PgWest last week that in August 2011 TransLattice (commercial multi-master replication system) became available. http://www.translattice.com/ It's based on Postgres 9.0 and Postgres-R. Also, there is a talk "Total Availabili
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by atsaloli 15y ago
Really? You've never felt somebody looking at you? You can try an experiment, look at somebody intently for a while -- see if they don't look back at you.

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