I have a fresh workstation and am running through the windows 8 installer on USB.
When choosing the drive to install to, I get an error:
We couldn’t create a new partition or locate an existing one
Lots of googling and I didn’t find any hints for …
Clarifying my position from this post -
I’m not trying to say people (ops or otherwise) shouldn’t want stronger
programming skills. I’m saying the equipment we use is pretty shitty.
I am part of the generation raised near devices ever blinking “12:…
Clarifying my position from this post:
The “ops folks need coding skills” groupthink is lame. Software requires extra
coding because it is shitty, not because people are unskilled
I will lead with this: I want more people who use technology to gr…
This year’s been pretty good, but the last two months were pretty lame.
In the last six weeks, I found out Caramel
has lymphoma, got unemployed, and had emergency surgery to remove my appendix
on Christmas Day. The unemployment caused me to lose an …
I never really liked C’s assert() feature. If an assertion is violated, it’ll
tell you what assertion failed but completely lacks any context:
example: example.c:9: main: Assertion `i == 3′ failed.
This is better:
Assertion failed insist.c:7 in m…
It’s been about 8 months since the last xdotool release, and I think it’s long
overdue! This release has a ton of new feature and fixes.
Download: xdotool-2.20110530.1.tar.gz
As usual, if you find problems or have feature requests, please file b…
Ready for log and event management that doesn’t suck or drain your budget? It’s
time to logstash.
After lots of refactoring and improvements to logstash since the first minor
release last November, logstash is ready for wider usage now.
Read my ann…
I’m sure this is covered well elsewhere online, but that’s never the point of
these things 
I was helping with some capacity planning and run-rate math today at work and
found that ec2 reserved instances are much cheaper compared to on-demand – If…
Having become fed up with dealing with rpmbuild, spec files, debian control
files, dh_make, debuild, and the whole lot, I automated my way back to sanity.
The result is a tool I call “fpm” which aims to help you make and mangle
packages however you …
I was working on integrating jQuery Mobile stuff into fingerpoken and needed a
way to make the content area of pages full-screen. By ‘full screen’ I mean
still showing the header and footer, but otherwise the content needs to fill
the rest.
I couldn…
