sysadmin

There's a blog post to follow with when/why, etc., but without further ado:

I'm moving to a new position at Buckle, and that means we need a new Lead SysAdmin.  It's a great job at a great company, in a great place to raise a family (Kearney, NE).  You get paid well, get a good yearly budget for new toys equipment, and it's overall a very fun position.

Had an interesting issue today working on a mod_proxy setup of Apache forwarding requests in a reverse proxy setup to a backend Tomcat server. No matter what I did, I kept getting this in Apache's error log:

[error] (13)Permission denied: proxy: AJP: attempt to connect to 10.x.x.x:7009 (virtualhost.virtualdomain.com) failed

Just got the chance to finally sit down and watch Ben Rockwood's presentation at LISA 09: ZFS in the Trenches. If you are even thinking about ZFS and how it works, it's a very informative presentation. There is very little marketing-speak, and he very specifically targets sysadmins as his audience. Great stuff!

Over the years, I've come to know and love Eclipse.  Though it has roots in Java, ironically, I use Eclipse for just about everything except for coding Java (if I wrote Java code, I'm sure I'd use Eclipse).  Eclipse is great for browsing Subversion, coding PHP, coding Perl, and even coding shell scripts.  For die hards like me, there's the viPlugin that allows you to use all the vi commands you know and love within Eclipse.  About the time you get your perfect Eclipse setup established, you buy a new laptop on a new platform.  Or, in my case, I have three "primary" development workstations, each on a different OS.  The rest of this article will show you how to hook Dropbox into your Eclipse installation, allowing you to share your plugins and configurations across different versions of Eclipse, on different machines, and even on different platforms.