Google Talk to everything

http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/google-talk-news/33739-connect-google-talk-aim-msn-yahoo.html

Cool.

Mmm... hardware

This looks like yet another fine piece of hardware from Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan?entry=the_rise_of_the_general

I just love that picture :D

Browsers are tacky

http://browserfun.blogspot.com/

Wow!

Sun seems to do a good job with Solaris .. I just read about the new Service Management Facility
and it looks real nice. Seems like Sun is still leading the Unix invention race :)

Sysadmin vs AdminDrone --- Computing vs Data Processing?

Cool:
» The IT Commandments: #2 Thou Shalt Honor and Empower thy (Unix) Sysadmins | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com

I'm sooo happy whenever someone understands the difference between a proper sysadmin and a admin drone. I don't agree with the author that it's solely due to the requirements of scientific computing that proper sysadmins are bred, I think it's also due to the difference between a Unix shop and a Mainframe/Wintel shop.

Cool.

An insightful article on QoS!

Thanks to the wonderful Google Alerts I just found a sweet article on QoS. Unlike most articles I've read about QoS this one contain relevant information (Cisco-oriented) and both config examples and enterprise-related comments that indicates the author actually has some deployment experience. Nice.

Nice article

Just found a kind of nice article on how to have an Apache server on low-end hardware survive a storm of requests..

Gallery

I set up Gallery again yesterday. That is truly a remarkably simple piece of software! I have not had it installed for a year or something, but it still recognized all my old albums. Dead simple to setup too, when I use the FreeBSD ports system :-)

Kristian just stopped by my cubcicle to talk about the strange behaviour of our department server. It's main use is as a CVS server (via SSH). We have lots of defunct CVS processes. Weird and no hint in the logs as to what is going on.
Seems they are all children of an SSHd process ... most of them are owned by Kristian. Most of the rest are owned by someone using CVS from a Linux box. Weird.

So what?

Well .. I guess I will use this blog to whine about all the tacky technology that I encounter. Like a vent, kind of.