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Fascinating panel discussion on configuration management from #osbridge 2009 http://bit.ly/amcsq #

Twitter is too much over capacity to allow me to upload a profile picture. Very annoying. Why can't they just use gravatar? #

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I went to Open Source Bridge last week and had a great time #osbridge #

puppet's equivalent of hello world is setting sudoers mode to 440. If you change 440 to something else sduo ceases to work. Not recommended #

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Finally figured out that ctrl+shift+eject will start the mac screensaver, at least in snow leapord. #

For a better key combo for mac screensaver http://bit.ly/czGXjK #

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Took me a while to figure out that save-history.rb is broken in ruby 1.8.7 http://bit.ly/dD2kAq #

ReadyNas copy to USB is SO much faster if in Frontview under System>Performance you 'Enable fast USB disk writes' #

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Saw some cool uses for SASS a the Ruby Brigade meeting last night #

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Tedious test cases with a ton of arithmatic are a pain in the ass to debug #

Picasas 3.6 installs using wine under Ubuntu. Map locations don't work though http://bit.ly/14WzMU #

Just found out today about the program sar for keep system statistics as part of the sysstat package. It's great #

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