I love good tools. I recently wrote a log zipping script specific to the environment I currently work in. We don't remove logs from the servers (yet – that will change, but has not so far). The partitions on which the logs live are quite large. The servers' lifespan is short enough before rebuild [...]
My brother Dennis, my youngest brother, the baby of the family for so long, died Saturday 24th April 2010, very suddenly. He had a huge loving heart, and leaves an overwhelming hole behind him. He was there for me without any question or reservation and I hope he begins to know how much he is [...]
My daughter is in remission from AML type M4. She is coming off a ventilator she's been on for 38 days now, in an ICU in California. I'm leaving tomorrow after six weeks out with her. That's good – I miss being home, I miss my family in MA. I am so glad my daughter [...]
Not something you hope to have to hope for… My daughter has visually more healthy bone marrow than she had 36 days ago when she came into the hospital in crisis. She has at least managed to knock the cancer back and rebuild a bone marrow that is not diseased. More detailed tests will [...]
I've been willing my daughter to breathe for the last 24 days. She came down with leukemia. Acute, dangerous and sudden leukemia that tried very hard to kill her. Right now she is on an oscillating ventilator, with two chest tubes, daily dialysis, and a wall of IVs you would have to see to believe. [...]
I found a piece of code in a nagios alerting script that returns “success” matter what is happening with the jboss application it is checking. This script had been perpetuated as a service alerting script for years in the environs I work in, edited and passed on as working. It reads: if [failure code here]; [...]
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