Sean’s Obsessions

Sun’s looking to give away free Niagara servers to bloggers looking to review them.
I put my name in, not that this blog is a huge traffic source, but because I’m doing a series of articles for IBM on Unix performance tuning, and I think it would be sweet to use one of these boxes. […]

IOS Command Scheduler
Cool!
The Command Scheduler feature provides the ability to schedule some EXEC command-line interface (CLI) commands to run at specific times or at specified intervals.
Restrictions for Command Scheduler
The EXEC CLI specified in a Command Scheduler policy list must not generate a prompt or have the ability to be terminated using keystrokes. Command Scheduler […]

I was reading through an article with the byline Making good IT hires is critical to the success of the growing business, and came across the following comment:

When you bring in a new employee, you don’t get any value out of them for about 18 months, says [Robert] Berger

Yikes. That’s scary if it’s true.
I […]

I’ve been looking for some instructions on how to do snapshots on my machine. I did some research a while ago, and found several partial explanations, some of them contradictory.
http://arstechnica.com/columns/linux/linux-20041013.ars
goes through the whole process. He’s using XFS as the file system, so there is an extra step to freeze it. I suppose […]

Some interesting stuff from the feeds this morning:
Solaris 10 to drop root
Brief tutorial on using gdb for developing exploits
Cisco IOS to go modular (finally)
Cisco to release datacentre deployment strategy blueprint Couldn’t find anything about it on CCO, though
There also seems to be something going around on blogs (1, 2, 3)

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open […]

A coworker is trying to make some pocket money by making Custom Novelty Receipts, so I thought I’d give him a plug.
On a more serious note, if you are interested in how to run a business on the Internet, Web Master World has some excellent forums.

Here is the Perl Advent Calendar, a tutorial on a perl module for every day. The first one is on CGI::Untaint, which helps you to process form input in a CGI. There is also a series of RSS feeds.

This has gone too far. Political correctness has gone too far.

I usually try to provide some original thoughts here, but I’ve run across several perl links that are worth passing along:
1 - Advanced usage of CPAN, including determining dependencies, updating all the modules on the system, and a simpler way to replicate modules across systems
2 - Excerpts from the new Perl Cookbook, which talks about […]