Monthly Archives: December 2008

todo-cycle a simple todo manager based on “The Cycle”

I posted about Tom Limon­celli and his Time Man­age­ment for Sys­tem Admin­is­tra­tors. I have writ­ten a sim­ple wrap­per to do pre and post pro­cess­ing of a todo file as it is opened and closed to some­what mir­ror “the cycle”. If your inter­ested you can find a bit more infor­ma­tion on todo-cycle here.

Old new SA Pro podcast

It’s not new news but I havent seen any­one else men­tion it. Ben Rock­wood over at cud­dletech had his sec­ond SA Pro pod­cast with Tom Limon­celli, it cov­ers time man­age­ment. It’s a good lis­ten, I’m still wait­ing for him to setup a feed for the pod­casts. Tom has some good advice, I have picked up

Simple network popup with python and libnotify

Im sure every­one is famil­iar with smb mes­sages espe­cially as every­one was assulted with them about 10 years ago (stu­pid soho routers and spam­mers unite!). Any­way, there are clients for linux like Lin­popup. Well recently I didn’t want to use one of those to be able to send mes­sages to my linux work­sta­tions so I

ssh config wildcards

I just wanted to make sure no one for­gets that wild­cards can be used in your .ssh/config. This can be extremely help­ful. For exam­ple say you have 100 nodes that have a sim­ple name­ing scheme of nodexxxx. You can add the fol­low­ing into your ssh con­fig and pre-poplulate set­tings. That would cause any ssh con­nec­tion

Maintenance mode with apache mod_rewrite

With small web­sites some­times you need to put up a main­te­nance page while you are mak­ing some mod­i­fi­ca­tions. Typ­i­cally you should have some stag­ing env­iorn­ment but some­times infra­struc­ture does not allow for this. If you find your self in this sit­u­a­tion you might like this tip.