Devops Needs Sushi
I just blogged that I wanted the skype plugin to work in my pidgin, only to have 1 central chat window.
Guess what .. this really works. it’s that simple .. copy the 2 files, then setup the account .. I just had to disable the annoying skype sounds :)
As some of you know I run Fedora on my main Laptop, and Ubuntu on my EEE and my office Desktop. My Ubuntu installs were pretty fresh, but my fedora was long due for an upgrade. As after years of abuse (–force –nodeps) it usually is impossible to do a regular upgrade, so my best way out was a quick and fresh install on an isolated root partition. (my /home/ etc live on separate volumes)
I predicted it to some people and it actually became true :(
I just removed myselve from tomorrows BarcampGent 2 subscription list.
It seems I can make it to most of the “odd” issues of Belgian Barcamps, I made it to BarcampBrussels, BarcampBrussels3 and the first BarcampGent, but for the Even Barcamps , Brussels2 and 4 and now Gent2 there always seems to be something that eventually blocks me from going. Just like with the BXL edition family priorities kicked in.
Santa delivered his goods early at Inuits this year
Sorry John, but we figured the Girls in Your shirt trick would be better than the tags on your Fedora one :)
Bort has another pic, and Dieter suddenly wants to test Zenoss too :)
Last weekend I blogged about openQRM 4.2 being released.
This morning Matt finally let me know the long waiting fresh and new Drupal based openQRM.com is live !
Feed Added!
Matt Reid wants to know what we want in an Open Source MySQL monitoring solution ?
He is working on the second incarnation of Monolith and wants input from the MySQL community.
Now for me the bigger question is if we want an isolated tool that runs stand alone, or a tool which we can integrate it in something we already have.
To me there is a difference between a tool that I want to use to debug my environment, such as Mytop or MySQL Activity Report, in that case I need some tool that quickly installs with little dependencies and little impact.
Done
Some of my lower traffic sites were still on an old Drupal 5, others were at 6.4 and lots of modules were outdated. So I set out to migrate all the sites to a multisite setup. I now have a set of shared modules , shared themes and some specific ones .. just as it is meant to be. And I only have 1 central Drupal instance to upgrade. Next step is figuring out how to trigger the database upgrades from 1 central place.
Bort is in to graphs and stats these days, so he was interested in my little Technorati hack.
Lots of us bloggers are using Technorati to track who’s joining the discussion on articles we posts. Technorati gives you details on how many blogs link to you, and how much they link to you and translate that into an Authority rank. Now what they don’t give you is an idea on how that rank evolves.
Seen over at Failblog, you could call it OS fail also actually .. maybe one day people will realize that AVG correctly identified the Trojan
Meme from codeblog
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open it to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
My result:
“We’ll cover more on where to place your name servers in Chapter 8, Growing Your Domains.” - DNS and BIND , 2nd Edition , Paul Albitz & Cricket Liu