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Why software developers don’t make good system administrators
Straight off the bat I would make something clear: I have a lot of respect for software and web developers. Being able to write clean, intelligent and efficient code is certainly one of the more difficult aspects within this industry. With this in mind, I think that anyone who is able to write a consistently [...]
Phone system outage
On early evening of Tuesday the 30th of March the entire building in which Anchor’s offices are located at 81 York Street Sydney lost power. Our phone system is the only critical piece of infrastructure located in our office that is required to provide service as normal. Until power is restored our phones appear to [...]
Belated cheers for the greenest day of the year
I think everyone in the office has just about recovered from St. Patrick’s day. Which is a good thing, what with the weekend coming up. Are we doin’ it right? Honestly, the only glassware in the office is beer steins. This isn’t a problem, mind you…
Automated server updates
This is going to be a contentious one, but here at Anchor we think automatically applying updates to servers is a Good Thing. It’s definitely not for everyone, but in an environment like ours with hundreds of managed servers it’s the only way you’re going to get things done and get any sleep at night. [...]
SSH ControlMaster: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Do you love SSH for the good it has done for mankind, but get annoyed by how long it takes to establish a connection over a high-latency connection? Perhaps you have a process that needs to make thousands of SSH connections, and you’d like a little extra speed from the whole thing. Either way, ControlMaster [...]
vi gangstas!
Sampling shamelessly stolen from four fine folk, for your amusement. We love vi, everyone at Anchor uses it. ‘Cause it’s better than emacs, yo. . AWW SNAP, BRO! WE JUST IMPROVED YO GESTURE!! .
Github / Anchor Drinkup, Monday 18th Jan 2010
In Brief: Come down to the James Squire Brew house (King Street Wharf, Sydney) for a chance to have a few drinks with guys (and gals) from your friendly hosting company. In addition to this, we’re lucky to have special guests Tom and Scott of Github fame dropping in and you’ll have the opportunity to [...]
ERROR: SSH agent has too many keys
Unfortunately, SSH doesn’t produce this error, although it darn well should… I just had a Github customer report that they couldn’t access their repos via SSH, despite it all working properly yesterday, and “not having changed anything”. A bit of debug logging and an inspired leap of intuition on the part of another sysadmin in [...]
Monitor your servers like it’s 1996
Whilst I’m a fan of using percentages for my disk space checks, sometimes an explicit size is more appropriate. So, you’d expect the following to work nicely: $USER1$/check_disk -w 5G -c 1G -p /data/foo If you don’t actually test that this works (by artificially filling your disk and seeing what happens), you may be dismayed [...]
Industry Analysts: Putting the “arse” in Analyst
I’ve never been a real fan of the output of big “industry analysis” firms, since their reports never seemed to really tell the whole story, and didn’t match up with my experiences “in the trenches”. Now I know why. A representative sample: “I see. So, the companies in your magic quadrant, are they all paying [...]
