Posted in Hardware, Linux, Technology on Aug 30th, 2007
So we landed a fairly big customer. Said customer is all about Debian. It went down kind of like this
Sales: “Will you guys support 40 Debian servers?”
Us: “No!”
Sales: “Okay, we’ll need those by the end of September”
So of course not only am I the guy responsible for creating all Linux deployments, I’m one of the [...]
Posted in General, Technology on Aug 29th, 2007
For all the suck that my job provides, I have to try to remember that I have it pretty good overall. It’s about 11:00am, I’m sitting at panera (aka pantera), eating a bagel, drinking coffee, and working. The better part of my work week is usually spent at home or in coffee shops. As long [...]
Posted in General, Hardware, Technology on Aug 28th, 2007
I started my day as I always do around 8:00am. Sometimes it’s a little earlier, sometimes a bit later. Today, I went to the coffee shop to take care of some stuff remotely for about an hour, then I headed to one of my Data Centers to take care of some stuff before my team [...]
Posted in Technology on Aug 27th, 2007
So I was searching for new analytics (besides google), and I came across Clicky. Anyone using it? My site is still far too low traffic to generate any useful stats, but the interface looks awesome. Just curious what other people’s experience with them is.
Seriously. Can I have it back?
All in all, it was a decent weekend. I took Friday off for no reason other than the fact that I work too much, and my boss thought I should take a day. After the whole being called several times thing from 3-4 AM, I finally got back to sleep [...]
Posted in General, InfoSec, Linux, Technology on Aug 25th, 2007
Over the past month or so, I have been working on a flurry of updates, reconfigurations, migrations of services, and entire servers for my personal sites, and my hosting company. The personal stuff is always fairly painless. If something breaks, it’s not the end of the world. We lose a little ad revenue, and a [...]
Posted in General, Linux, Technology on Aug 24th, 2007
We had a customer who wanted some basic stuff done during a 3:00AM maintenance window today. Since my boss told me to take Friday off, I assigned this maintenance to one of my guys. I sat down with him yesterday, to make sure that he knew what he was doing, and showed him some docs [...]
Posted in General, Home, InfoSec, Linux, Pets, Technology on Aug 23rd, 2007
So what’s been happening in my life?
We bought a new house in Ashburn in March. We moved in a few months before that, but were waiting to sell our townhouse. The house is awesome! It’s on about a quarter of an acre, in a great neo-traditional neighborhood. We’ve done a ton to the house already, [...]
Posted in General, Technology on Aug 23rd, 2007
I’m still working on getting things the way I want them here. So far so good. I need to make some catagories, and catagorize all my old postings. It’s kind of cool reading through some of these old entries from so long ago. Time flies!
Posted in General on Aug 23rd, 2007
I set this blog up originally a couple of years ago, and as I promised then, I didn’t update it at all. I was inspired by Doug, so I decided to revamp this thing. I imported all of my old entries from LJ, though I can’t figure out how to get comments. I’m over LJ, [...]
Dan’s Worthless Blog
When I call your name, please say “here” and we’ll assume the word “here” to be short for “here I am, rock you like a hurricane.”
There are 576 Posts and 35 Comments so far.
Posts
