the everyday adventures of sabrina

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night one with the pager: blissful, blissful sleep. night two: the london exchange goes down. ‘cos they broke it. i get 4 measly hours of sleep. by the time it’s all wrapped up, it’s 45 minutes until my alarm was going to go off. i made a pot of coffee, and cursed LIFFE. hrmpf. bets […]

linux fest roundup

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quote of the weekend: “sooo, what brings you, a female, to linux fest?” (sadly, no: emphasis not added.) … there really is no **SIGH** loud enough, some days. did like the guys at the check in desk being mildly flirty though. that part was good. then it was off to spend the rest of the […]

the road to linux fest

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expected length of travel: 5.5, maybe 6 hours. it’s only 350 miles, and i do that to kim’s place in 5 hours on a good day. depart the office: 1600 on the nose. in the hotel room preparing to call asleep: 0100 on the nose (ET). time spent in chicago stop and go traffic: five […]

the world is mine

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sld@sabsbitch ~% rpm -q -a | grep ruby ruby-1.8.5-gelber.0.1 in the past two weeks, i have built a network install server, set it up to perform automated/unattended installs, and learned how to build my own RPMs so that i can roll out our customized versions of software as a part of that automated install, rather […]

i pwn you, SuSE!

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i am with great satisfaction watching the extremely slow-ass pxe-booting of a server off the suse install server i’ve got on my workstation. i will never manually swap CDs again! also, beer and watching soccer is conducive to setting up linux install servers. i’m just sayin’.