Joel Spolsky expands on the Evidence-based Scheduling method that he uses and has mentioned in passing a number of times.
It sounds pretty interesting, but adopting it would mean
Thought the melody in Deep Forest's 'Sweet Lullaby' was a traditional Pigmy piece?
The great news is - I have put in a new server! Yay!
You should find page loads far more expedient now, the old server (a dual P-II 400MHz with 256MB RAM, slow SCSI disks) was really struggling to do all the things I have it doing, and I now have a (very noisy) HP Netserver LP-2000r (dual P-III 1GHz with 512MB RAM, fastish SCSI disks) serving up the pages.
For those who administer a number of unix systems you have probably found there is little out there in the way of tools to help you manage multiple systems in a clean and efficient way. While cfengine is perhaps the most advanced F/OSS offering it is lacking in many areas - I know when I checked it out some time ago I got the distinct impression that the Cost/Benefit break-even point would be somewhere beyond 50 machines - I want something that's worth setting up for the ability to replace (or reconfigure) 10 machines without as much effort as it would take to do manually.
Oh. My. God. I can't even begin to describe how insanely stupid this is. I just went to open a site in Firefox (since it wasn't rendering in Konqueror quite right) and I get greeted by the most stupid error message I think I've ever seen:
I recently applied a whole bundle of updates including alsa-lib on my Fedora Core 4 x86_64 desktop. Since then I started getting the error message
ALSA lib control.c:817:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL default
Open error: No such file or directory
whenever I tried to open alsamixer, and similar errors and crashes running other apps that expected to be able to use the Alsa sound system (which worked quite well before the update).
Turns out I'm a "Modern, Cool Nerd" - some kind of freakish half-nerd, half-geek beast I guess. Take the survey yourself if you're interested....
Modern, Cool Nerd 56 % Nerd, 56% Geek, 30% Dork For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
Before I upgraded to FC4 I was using the ndiswrapper drivers for my el'cheapo Netcomm NP7032 802.11b WiFi PCMCIA card - and I felt dirty because of it.
Come FC4 I found that my ndiswrapper config got blown away by the upgrade, so I embraced the change and went hunting again for suitable, Open Source drivers.