Homage to Icarus

One of the bad ideas cur­rently infect­ing com­pa­nies in the tech­nol­ogy field is the LivePerson “chat with a sup­port per­son now” thing. This is a bad idea for mul­ti­ple reasons:

It’s a gigan­tic float­ing piece of garbage dis­tract­ing me from what­ever it is I’m try­ing to learn about your com­pany or it’s prod­ucts.
The rep­re­sen­ta­tives on the […]

I’m set­ting up an iso­lated net­work for peo­ple to test inter­nal appli­ca­tions on, since the devel­op­ers all have Sun work­sta­tions with a dual-port Gigabit NIC on the moth­er­board, and we’ve got a bunch of older net­work equip­ment that we haven’t got­ten around to eBay­ing yet. What I’m doing is link­ing the sec­ond NICs together with […]

This is me set­ting up a JBOD for use by one or more XEN hosts, using pro­fes­sional hard­ware. It’s not a hack, not throw­ing a shit­load of dri­ves into a PC with some “pro­sumer” SATA RAID cards that require you spend weeks fuss­ing with dri­vers and firmware to get even a min­i­mal write per­for­mance out […]

Update: Commenters have pointed out a few things:

This post is incomplete/incorrect. What I’m doing now is hav­ing the dae­mon func­tion call a script that looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
exec 1>&-
exec 2>&-
exec 3>&-
nohup myPropApp & 2>&1 > thelog.txt
That code was from another web­site who’s URL I lost, and I posted the solu­tion below based on another, alter­nate method […]

I’m look­ing to hire a Linux Administrator in for a posi­tion in down­town Chicago. It’s a high-demand, high-stress envi­ron­ment with lots of things going on at any one time: We play with high-end sun servers on an inter­na­tional pri­vate net­work, use Amazon EC2, and have a slew of Asterisk servers form­ing the joints of a […]