identi.ca

So, I figured since keeping up with being articulate here is only working so well, I'd also try easing into it with some microblogging at identi.ca also.

Install Fest at Milwaukee LUG!

Advance warning that the Milwaukee Area LUG is having an Install Fest on Sept. 13th. More info can be found in the wiki. I'm going to try to be there with my laptop and a copy of liveusb-creator to make some USB Fedora keys for folks who want them as well as lend a hand.

If I have extra time, I'll try to setup DHCP on my laptop to run as an option server to present PXE'able images for various installers. This will require a bunch of downloading across my poor little cable-modem to get said images, so that might not happen, unless of course I travel to $hq and can co-opt their link.

If you're in Milwaukee, drop by and say "Hi" or bring a machine to install Linux on!

I hate interviews, interviewing, resumes and cover letters

Ahem. yep. That's it. The job search and interview process scares the crap out of me and I hate it.

I shake when writing cover letters. I've lost jobs because I got nervous during on-site interviews and babbled the first thing that sprang into my head. So much so that one recruiter even asked me flat out "What the hell happened in there?" It's worse now that I've learned how to keep calm during phone interviews, because my inability to sound intelligent during an on-site generally rings bullshit alarms even louder now.

So to all of you who will have to interview me, read my resume or cover letter, or generally deal with me on the applicant end of a hiring process: I apologize. I'm smart, I can do the job, I just evidently have some sort of emotional interview baggage I haven't fully realized yet.

Or something. Maybe airing my issues publicly is the first step to fixing them, I dunno.

CAR-MAX Sucks

So we're moving and the place we're moving to only has a 1 car garage. Since I'll be telecommuting for the near future, we figured we'd ditch one of the cars because we wouldn't need it. To do so we sold the car to Car-Max on Tuesday.

It's now Saturday and they have not paid off the loan I had on the car as they said they would. After several phones calls trying to talk to their business office (several times I was sent to voice-mail for some other random department and had to call back) I finally got someone. They claim their check-scanner was broken and so, everything needed to be hand-entered. That wasn't the case on Tuesday and I know it doesn't take the better part of a week to get a scanner fixed or do hand entry.

Their suggestion? "Call back on Tuesday if it doesn't post on your account, kthxbai!"

Bimbos.

If it doesn't post by Tuesday I'm reporting the vehicle stolen.

UPDATE: Aug 17, 2008: Car-Max figured their stuff out by Wednesday, but still, please.

Please leave a message at the sound of the tone....

I'm quiet not because I'm lazy but because I'm moving. More on the move, and the destination at some point.

Things that are interesting to me, that I'd like to write about in the near future:
- http://lopsa.org/pipermail/discuss/2008-July/003730.html
- http://times.usefulinc.com/2008/06/16-ops-now
- http://nasrat.livejournal.com/52943.html

Enjoy!

Red Hat Frees RHN Satellite product

Wootness!

Red Hat has finally opened up their RHN product. I guess they're finally taking that "we're a solutions company, not a software company" thing to heart. Good for them. I know this has been a large part of their revenue model since they started it, so releasing the code must not have been easy for them. I don't think it will hurt them in the long run and hopefully will help because now it would/could/should be possible to integrate stuff like puppet, cfengine, func, cobbler/koan and all sorts of other fun stuff.

Fun times ahead.

• http://dgoodwin.dangerouslyinc.com/node/99
• http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/

obligatory iPhone post

Please excuse this mindless post while I futz around.

Also: packetshaper + steelhead = funky traffic data