Parkinson shows how you can go in to the board of directors and get approval for building a multi-million or even billion dollar atomic power plant, but if you want to build a bike shed you will be tangled up in endless discussions.
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Category: it could be called work
home-brew user agents
For a really performance intensive application, you’ll probably need to get down and dirty with C or C++, but if you can throw enough iron at the problem to keep your hands out of that tarpit, python, perl, java, and friends become serious contenders.
inessential.com: User Agents All Time
obidos-bot (just looking for books.)
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removing nimda/code red’s lingering effects
I get tired of nimda requests from my infected “network neighbors.”
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netstumbling
open source in business: how to sell the idea
Slashdot | Danese Cooper (of Sun) Finally Answers
If I were trying to convince my IT boss to adopt an Open Source technology I would be looking at the total cost to use it (i.e. Is it easier to use,learn or manage? Is the cost differential big enough to justify whatever risk? Is real support available?) in addition to evaluations based on feature set. In the area of control I would focus on the flexibility that comes from having Open Source rights to the code. No longer are you at the mercy of vendors who may or may not class your issues as high priority. I would point out the national governments and NGOs who are chosing to mandate use of Free and Open software as evidence that Open Source has entered the governmental mainstream. However, its important to recognize that the mass migration to liberated infrastructure software will be evolutionary because a revolution would be too disruptive to Business.
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googlebot has visited
actually four of them, according to my records.
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weblogging for fun and profit
Business pros flock to Weblogs
I wish these had been around years ago . . . .
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a picture is not always worth a thousand words
In a previous incarnation, I did some work with network and system monitoring, and since I have a network here at my house, I continue to fiddle with this stuff.
RRDTOOL examples
network/host graphs
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too many machines
I seem to be always finding things to do . . . Like I need more distractions.
I have too many computers to deal with here. What started out as a lab/learning experience has become more of a penance.
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other stuff to look at
I have some other odds and ends here that might be of use to someone besides myself.
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