What a beautiful voice! I'm inspired! He's has grown up now though, around 19 years old.

Just a quick post. If you are running kickstart, you may find yourself looking for the list of installation groups and their associated packages. I certainly did.

Following a tip from http://www.mail-archive.com/cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org/msg04644.html, here's the entire comps.xml file for Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.4.

First found on Facebook.

Today (yesterday?) is Blog Action Day '09, and the topic is "Climate Change". What a depressing, yet uplifting topic to blog about!

When you were just small kiddos, did you ever imagined how Earth would look like from space? Guess it would look like this:

I can't help but post this: ∃ vegetarian spiders!

I have been using this script to check for updates on my Redhat systems for quite some time. Put this into your cron.daily, and you have a daily nag to update your system.

#!/bin/bash                                                                                       

#########
## Yum Check Update Script
##
## This script checks for system updates and sends email
## to sysmin team if there are any updates.
##
## Changelog
## ---------
## 24 Oct 2008 (Junhao)
## - Initial commit
##
#########

_CAT="/bin/cat"
_DATE="/bin/date"
_HOSTNAME="/bin/hostname"

This is so cool! And looks more traumatising than $WORK!

Hmm, where's the coffee though...

This should be very familiar to everyone. I wonder if I will experience this too. Taiwan in December!

Recently, I have started to migrate my scripts to use Puppet. Everything from initial system provisioning to manual failover systems had been converted. Wee~

I am on twitter, under the name jmarki! Do add me, and let me know who you are.... My memory is failing me...

On a side note, someone from $WORK found my blog while searching for my $WORKPLACE on yahoo.com. How did that happen?!