cool old term – terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
Category: Sysadmin
System administration is a special are of IT. It also has a special place in my heart. It is an interesting mixture of all the other disciplines, both common across the whole industry, and at the same time unique for each person, company, and geographical location. When I have something to say or share about system administration, I use this category.
Terraform – infrastructure automation and management tool
Terraform – infrastructure automation and management tool.  It complements configuration management tools like Puppet and Chef, as well as infrastructure building tools like CloudFormation.  The beauty of it is that it is tool and cloud agnostic.  You can use it to build and maintain infrastructure across multiple clouds.
DNSimple – a hosted DNS service
DNSimple – a hosted DNS service. Â Offers a REST API among other things.
git-fat – simple way to handle fat files without committing them to git, supports synchronization using rsync
git-fat – simple way to handle fat files without committing them to git, supports synchronization using rsync
Happy Sysadmin’s Day!
It is the last Friday of July once again, which means it is Sysadmin’s Day. Congratulations to all system, network, and database administrators. Â Have a short day and a long pint!
Everyone else should take this opportunity to appreciate the work done by system administrators. Â The nature of this profession is such that most people only notice the existence of system administrators when something is broken and doesn’t work. Â If you network is running smoothly, if can’t remember the last time your computer gave you trouble, if your inbox is clear of spam and viruses – there’s a sysadmin somewhere making sure of that. Â Things don’t just happen by themselves.