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An excellent guide on Python Project layout.

Complete soundtrack to skyrim.

@greppy Must be a slow news day: Vim vs. Emacs Shootout Oh wait no ... @timoreilly is just selling books. :-D

It appears that I can name almost all of the images referenced.

Concise article on how to create and run a PnP RPG.

Google weighs-in on the PROTECTIP Act. my reaction -> #sysadmin

Google weighs-in on the PROTECTIP Act. my reaction -> #sysadmin

A reading list; programmers talking about the craft of programming.

Consumer Tech: an IT Nightmare: #sysadmin Any personal stories to share on this?

RT @bitfield: The No Journal. I like this - as a freelancer, I have a big problem saying no to things. This could help.

@_minego Try TTYtter.

All #sysadmin need to start reading "E-PARASITES Act" on Scribd , I'm not sure what to make of it yet, but it's not good

RT @evilchili: Greatest shirt ever, or the GREATEST shirt ever?

@mikerigsby I have never tried them, but it might be a good way for you to dispose of them.

Being down voted for suggesting version control software on serverfault. Priceless. :-) #sysadmin #devops

RT @standaloneSA: Have I mentioned that I hate baggage claim? That's not to say that you can't learn things there... ...

@THErealDVORAK I hope you kept those shorts: Netflix loses 800,000 subscribers (stock drops 28%)

RT @mikerigsby: RT @TimBiden: @mikerigsby You've gotta check out the question asked here! | Oh my gawd!

The Best RSS Icon I've seen:

@mikerigsby @TechCaddie He seemed very optimistic about linux a little while ago:

@mikerigsby @TechCaddie and his website is down .... he should have used linux after all. :-)

I made flashcard for IPV6 Prefixes And Multicast Addresses #sysadmin yes this will be on the test!

Three excellent tools for python based system administration.

The Help Desk: Proudly Helping You Help Yourself, Since 1500, #sysadmin

Turn off the spam filter!

@zedshaw You should also read this about Thomas Ryan, he made the FBI (and other agencies) look like fools in 2009:

@complex @yesthattom had a nice write up on doing this:

Check on mysql status

Look up equipment by UL number. Amazing resource to find suppliers (especially for power supplies).

A database of PCI Vendors. Helpful for finding drivers for unkown hardware/vendors.

NIST raido clock sync coverage area by time of day

RT @makerfaire: RT @bondidwhat: Going to #MakerFaire this weekend? Some of the best food is along the 7 train.

So excited about this! Maker Faire this weekend in New York I'll be there on Saturday!

Apache debugging

Interesting discussion on what makes engaging quests. I find that the more options presented the more engaging the quest.

Script to visualize nagios cfgs.

Looks like there are some interesting screencasts. I might buy one or two ...

"We pack the useful information you need to know into about an hour. You'll learn the most important features and techniques instead of trudging through outdated blog posts and verbose API documents."

White paper from vmware on partition alignment. Also good for basic understanding of LUN/Chunk/Sector/Block Alignment issues.

In short, going to 4KB physical sectors allows drive manufacturers to increase storage density, always welcome in that competitive market. Recently, there have been a number of reports that Linux is not ready to work with these drives; kernel developer Tejun Heo even posted an extensive, worth-reading summary stating that "4 KiB logical sector support is broken in both the kernel and partitioners."

Slowly but surely, hard drives with 4 KB sectors are replacing the "legacy" 512 byte sector size. By January 2011, all drive vendors will have made this transition. Buyers of new PCs are safe, but there are still a few performance pitfalls to note.

It looks like transition to ATA 4k drives will be quite painful and we
aren't really ready although these drives are already selling widely.
I've written up a summary document on the issue to clarify stuff as
it's getting more and more confusing and develop some consensus. It's
also on the linux ata wiki.

MegaCli Commands

To fix your broken Raid1′s on your Intel raid’s, use “dmraid -R <raidid> <dev>” and watch “dmsetup status” and wait for the ratio to be 1.

FIS–based switching offers high performance storage connections to multiple drives simultaneously. The host issues and completes commands to drives at any time. The port multiplier will direct data to any drive ready for I/O. An arbitration algorithm ensures a balanced data flow. Unlike Command-based switching, FIS-based switching allows aggregation of reads to fully use the potentially higher bandwidth of the host link and takes full advantage of the performance benefits of Native Command Queuing (NCQ) on the port multiplier, resulting in aggregated throughput of up to the total bandwidth of the host band link.