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Six months of happenings

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Over six months has passed since my last update. Instead of describing the happenings, I have included pictures and some brief captions. Note that these events are not necessarily in chronological order.

I rode in mustang and pace cars around the track at the Las Vegas Speedway.
Mustang ride at the Las Vegas Speedway
Pace car ride at the Las Vegas Speedway

It got really cold. I got a nasty cold.
17 below zero Fahrenheit.

It snowed a lot.
Lots of snow on my truck.

I saw a moose.
A moose.

We had water damage in our house. Presumably from the weight of the snow on the roof.
Water damage from the heavy snow on my roof.

  • I attended VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas.
  • I am now a Senior Programmer / Analyst for ITSS.
  • I am taking a Pre-Calculus class.
  • D & I started cross country skiing.
  • I am using Outlook 2007.
  • DTM has posted 8 times.
  • I’m reading “Managing Humans”.
  • My gmail thread surpassed 20,000 messages.

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Initrd, Space Pens, & Cabelas

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

I learned about initrd yesterday, including how to properly create one should I blow it up. It is essentially a gzip’d cpio archive of important kernel modules / files, very neat. We also learned about PAM, NIS, & LDAP.

After training we purchased space pens and visited Cabelas. We had dinner at Olive Garden.

New command: mkinitrd

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The second day of Red Hat training

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Last night included Trader Joe’s & Famous Dave’s BBQ.

Today we learned about ACLs, quotas, software RAID, LVM, SELinux, & kickstart. I’m excited about new SELinux knowledge as everything I’ve been exposed to up to this point has been “SELinux breaks things, and no one knows how to fix it.”

Tonight we went to Northern Brewer [Josh Myles purchased a brew kit], then had dinner at a Thai restaurant.

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Minneapolis - A city of detailed descriptions

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

After driving around / visiting places for food, etc. we’ve come to the realization that each establishment in Minneapolis describes their business in great detail.

Example: Mackenzie - An American bar with a scotch flavor.

Almost every establishment is like this, it’s crazy.

Day one of training is over - I learned a new command: ip

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