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Group Enterprise Summary

A completely automated haiku.

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How we got here

Sarge is installed on this Compaq Proliant 1500 (dual Pentium Pro 200) server. Fun fun fun time installing.

Turns out sarge isn't really designed to be easily installed on EISA-based systems, nor on systems which need bizarre parameters passed to modules needed for mounting the root volume at boot time.

Luckily, there are ways around this.

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Extreme disaster recovery

Fully Automatic Installation is a very cool tool for Debian, originally designed to automate the operating system installation on cluster machines. It's also really good for installing Debian on a large number of similar machines, like web servers, or a bank of workstations, where the set of installed packages, and their configuration, is nearly identical between machines, and the number of machines warrants automation. In short, it's perfect for any large, homogeneous (or nearly homogeneous) network.

Which, of course, is about the furthest thing you can imagine from the casa network.

Which, of course, is exactly why we're rolling it out on the casa network.

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Current projects

libolsr

Open Library of Doom: Optimized Link State Routing

current alpha version here

apacherestart

apacheresetart.exp: A simpler, faster method of restarting an apache server with SSL support, using Expect.

cl-blog-start

An easier way do distribute lisp applications, as fully contained worlds, starting automatically at boot time. Can be found on my sbcl page here.

Other page

Some slightly more cryptic stuff is available at my veryfresh site.

Also

Also, landmines should sound like kittens. Kevin figures this idea may be good enough to justify starting up the weapons lab.

Also also

Also also, here is a version of Vim 6.4 for OS X.

Also also also, Asterisk

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