Tracking Packages Not Installed by Puppet

12 Oct 2011

I use [puppet][] to manage my servers (and my laptop), primarily because it's what we use at work. However, I have a bad habit of...

LVM sucks

03 Feb 2007

Anything that, when a harddrive fails, requires you to run dd on the good disk(s), sucks.

Munin: why's it backwards?

25 Jan 2007

Munin is a pretty nice monitoring application: you install the server software on a machine, then client software on various machines, then you get nice...