I’m pleased to announce that version 1.2 of ModiPy has been released. You can grab it from the CheeseShop like this: easy_install ModiPy Easy! What’s New? This version of ModiPy is the most stable yet. It’s still beta, since there are some areas that don’t have enough test coverage yet,… Read More
Using multiple redo log areas is something that many Oracle DBAs are used to doing. This post explains why you should stop doing it if you use NetApp storage for your Oracle database. What Would I Know? Once upon a time I was an Oracle DBA. I’d never done it… Read More
I had this idea a little while ago: an SNMP to Twitter gateway. It seemed like an obvious fit: Twitter is all about status updates, and that’s basically all an SNMP Trap is. So this afternoon I hacked up a little Python script to do it: #!/usr/bin/python # $Id: traptweet.py… Read More
If you’ve ever dabbled in learning about theoretical physics, as I have, you will enjoy an excellent book by Brian Greene called The Fabric of the Cosmos. It’s the first book that has explained how time and space are related by Einstein’s theory of general relativity in such a way… Read More
I love Python. I find it really easy to use to write programs with. I’m also pretty into NetApp Filers lately. I spend a bunch of time helping enterprise customers with using them well. So, of course, I want to be able to administer them using Python. Second Class Citizens… Read More
Someone has made some old computer disk drives, printers, and so on, play Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. It is full of WIN. It sounds a bit like an olde timey merry-go-round. What some people do in their spare time is amazing. It’s even better, in many ways, than the people who… Read More
I upgraded from emacs 21 to emacs 22 about 6 months ago. I was looking for some of the better features of emacs 22, and for some bug fixes. Alas, I ended up being bitten by some other bugs. These bugs were annoying, but not quite bad enough to make… Read More
I just bought an Asus M50Vn laptop. I was drawn to the Shiny! appearance, and it seemed to have reasonable specs for something just a shade under $2000. Since Asus make the EeePC netbook computers that started the whole netbook craze, I figured it would have reasonable driver support under… Read More
Today I was once again struck by the thought “I am living in the future. This is Awesome.” The evidence this time was that computer games are sports. They have professional players. This isn’t new, but I came across some reminders today, courtesy of the Internet. First up, a StarCraft… Read More
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