Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to speak at Puppet Camp in Chicago. The goal of the event was to basically share, energize and evangelize puppet to a group of “locals” who will hopefully then use it and also spread the word to others.
I got involved in the event basically by accident. Last year at VMworld, I met Jose who is one of the community guys at Puppet. He helped sponsor a local LUG meeting where I spoke about puppet and it was a pretty good success.
Logged into a Puppet master server today and noticed that I had some high CPU utilization happening. This is rather odd as the box usually just chugs along with no worries what-so-ever.
Turns out, some others noticed this as well and some had suspicions that it was leap second related. Check out the full thread here.
Looking back at my SAR records, I find that my CPU spiked right around June 30th at 7PM which is July 1, Midnight GMT.
We’re currently running a little in house beta at the office of vCloud 1.5.0. The testing has been going on for a while and recently I had to do something I didn’t want to do, but had a nice learning experience for me so I thought I would share.
We have two UCS blades running in our vCloud environment giving us a nice healthy test bed to play in. For another maintenance in our VMware environment, I had to steal one of these blades to be used in another cluster to add some resources temporarily.
Today I came into work with the following messages in my logwatch emails:
Last Status:
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.97.4 Recommended version: 0.97.5
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq
main.cvd is up to date (version: 54, sigs: 1044387, f-level: 60, builder: sven)
daily.cld is up to date (version: 15042, sigs: 218148, f-level: 63, builder: mcichosz)
bytecode.cld is up to date (version: 185, sigs: 39, f-level: 63, builder: neo) Ah crap, time to touch all the boxes and make sure that the package is up to date right?
I was fortunate enough recently to get a fancy pants amazon gift card for some hard work put in the off hours at work. Mainly, 5 tests earning myself 2 certifications and several “specialist” designations over the past 6 months. What did I do with this new gift card, of coarse spend it as soon as I could on something totally geeky.
And here it is, a new OCZ 120GB Solid State drive for the mac mini which is my home dev machine.