Sean’s Obsessions

Turn off Nautilus. I’m not kidding. It’s that much of a bloated pig. Sure, you won’t have icons on your desktop, or use the file manager, but to be honest, I never have. I think I’ll lose some stuff with drag and drop, but I’ve never used it anyway. The […]

It is surprising to see the number of people that implement some sort of redundancy with no means of measuring when one of the components has failed. For example, building a disk mirror, but never knowing when one of them has failed.
That’s one thing that’s kept me away from using Linux Software RAID in […]

I’ve recently embarked on my CCNP Recertification. It’s not due ’till the end of the year, but I wanted to give myself time.
Normally when I study this type of stuff I make notes and drawings. However this gets lost once I’m done with the task. I thought this time around I’d try […]

It’s not an official holiday, but I’m starting it. Since I’m allowed to ask for a free copy of my credit report once per year (or any time I’ve been denied credit), I’m going to do it every March 15th.
I’m not worried about anything in particular, but identity theft has started to become more […]

On new server… testing. Nothing to see here.
If you were looking for ertw.com for the past couple of hours, you might have had stale DNS info. Rather than a graceful swingover I cut over DNS and shut down the old web server — there is some dynamic stuff that I’d prefer not […]

I’ve seen a bit being written about job satisfaction lately, so I figured I’d toss my two cents in.
“Pay me to do something I like, and I’ll never work another day in my life” is something I’ve always thought, meaning that if I’m doing stuff that interests me, it’s not really work.
Job satisfaction starts with […]

Apache Cookbook
Ken Coar & Rich Bowen
O’Reilly, 2004
234pp, $29.95USD/$46.95CDN
I finished going through O’Reilly’s Apache Cookbook a little while back, but it came in handy so often at work, I never brought it home to complete the review!
Like the other entries in the Cookbooks Series, the Apache Cookbook focuses on common problems, their solutions, and an explanation […]

After attending a great presentation on Linux and VoIP at MUUG last night, I have Free World Dialup a try. It’s a public SIP registrar that you can use, includes voice mail and other goodies.
If you’re on the system, I’m at 269423, or 269423@fwd.pulver.com for other SIP clients.
While toll bypass has become less and […]