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Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Here in the UK, we’ve had our share of motorway bypasses built over beautiful little 12th century churches or ancient saxon burial grounds or even just a little old lady’s back garden. Due to the outcry because of this it’s now practically impossible to [...] RRDtool is insanely useful. If you’re looking after lots of servers like I have to, it helps to be able to graph various system stats both to placate management, and to plan for upgrades, failures, etc. I got the following plate of multicoloured spaghetti by graphing the User CPU of a whole bunch of servers using [...] Some things make me feel like this. Specifically, when people say things that don’t make sense, and when they keep insisting that they be done “in case it works”. Here’s a cheerful example: him: can we try tracerouting their office IP: 172.26.123.45?, and see if that takes the same route they have given me: that’s inside their private [...] |
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