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I'm not sure how email would help. I guess you mean the system would email you once a day saying that the monitoring system is working and if you don't see the email you know to ch…

"Sysadmins and devs shouldn't really care if they have five generations of hardware." I wish it was true. sadly there are some services where scale and latency is so carefully meas…

Yes, very constructive. A more detailed reply: 3) really? the core of devops is to be data-driven in your decisions. how can you decide if you are maintaining the right uptime if y…

I dunno, that felt like bragging. By the way... I'll be teaching a class based on The Test at Usenix LISA in December. Also... I'm working on an edited/corrected update to The Test…

I read it this January after hearing it mentioned so many times. I was very impressed. My impressions were: 1. Ah, that's what it would have been like to attend a GOOD university! …

Yes, someone may have joined the network at your old IP address but that's ok. That first ARP is going to determine if that has happened already. Am I right? The author should try …

OH MY GOD! THIS GUY WANTS ME TO CHANGE THE WAY I WORK! I"VE BEEN WORKING THE SAME WAY FOR 20 YEARS YOU CAN"T MAKE ME CHANGE! CHANGE SCARES ME! 20 YEARS AGO MY TERMINAL DIDN"T HAVE …

As the co-author of TPoSaNA I am flattered but for the question at hand, I'd recommend a different book. Time Management for System Administrators from O'Reilly is more in line wit…

I worked at AT&T / Bell Labs when those commercials were flooding every show on TV. Bell Labs was upset because AT&T made those commercials without consulting us. A PR company thou…

The zillions of little companies with this kind of problem disagree.