Tomorrow I'll be heading to CPOSC, and speaking there too, it seems. It's been quite a while since I've spoken in front of a group larger than perhaps a dozen, so here's to not fainting.

The event looks like lots of fun, and I'll know at least a few people there (lyz and waltman) so well, away we go. Heading to the train.

Yesterday I received some spam. Just another day on the internet, right? Well, this spam was special.

Got back from SELF about 2 weeks ago. It was by far the best FOSS event I've been to, not that I've been to that many.
It bugs me that there aren't very many good ones. Ohio linuxfest is well spoken of, but it's pretty far, not that SELF was any better.

In just a couple weeks I'll be heading over to Southeast Linuxfest in South Carolina. I don't know if anyone out there would like to join me, but it looks like loads of fun. I'll be running a booth on behalf of freenode so if you are in the area, come check it out. More details at http://southeastlinuxfest.org/

I love irssi. I don't know any other irc client that even comes close for the sort of use I do. Recently, I've taken (with LOTS of help) to writing some scripts for irssi, the most useful of which (to me anyway) is one that logs channels I'm in to a mysql DB. I then use this DB along with some other scripts to get information about what is going on within my irssi client in a more convenient form.

So, I think I like this. Since I'm using ubuntu on the desktop (at least in the places I use a linux desktop, which no, is not everywhere) debian on the backend is working out for me. I'm playing around with some stuff that I think is rather cool (irssi scripting and the like). Those of you who know me well, know I spend a lot of time on irc, so I'm hoping to make something useful of all this. I think I have some ideas for irssi scripting that could make for some very interesting stuff.

So about a week ago I moved my irssi VPS from centos to debian. Funny stuff, because some things that just didn't work before are now. Specifically my cell phone (a windows mobile 6 device from which I use pocketty) now renders irssi properly when I ssh in and attach screen. This NEVER worked correctly for me before, multi-line messages would overwrite other messages and not scroll right. I don't know where the breakage was, but it works now and I'm very happy about it.

I'm rather preferring apt-get over yum too, for the most part. Aptitude rocks for a text only box.

So I've been here a while, and a large part of my day is just trying to get things to make sense (to me). I'm working through backups a little bit at a time, and I'm mostly happy with them, but I'm frustrated by the lack of certain ways of doing things.

I'd love to see some sort of product that backed up, by default, to something you could easily restore and boot in a VM environment. You can sort of do this with acronis, since it's pretty quick at restoring, but it's not perfect.

So, I had my first stab at installing an HP rackmount box yesterday. The box was a DL360 G5
I can sum it up in 2 words. It sucked.

The server was ok and accessible for the most part. I had to install a raid adapter, and this required removing some thumbscrews (This is a lie, I had to use a screwdriver to break them open). The rails were the real hassle, though. I hated them!

Well, it seems I've finally found a new job. I'll be starting next week, and it should be an awesome opportunity. More updates to follow!