I like to keep current the version of puppet on visualtis; a smallish without no much overhead when rolling-up the updates. In the end nothing breaks badly if puppet isn’t working properly.
For a few months I had no time to invest in puppet and I ended migrating three minor versions of puppet. Namely from 0.24.4 [...]
Bootstraped a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with Lenny. I was surprised by the many candies hiding on the current Debian-Installer. In spite of the eternal and recurrent internal struggle each Debian release is way better than its predecesor; and I mean way better, not just up-to-date.
The only pitfall on the installation was grub mishandling the Sas6 arrays. [...]
Un problema muchas veces repetido cuando no trabajas en ingles y ASCII. No siempre se controla la codificacion que se usa en distintos entornos de trabajo y produccion; al final acaban apareciendo caracteres extraños y problemas de codificacion.
Working with many development and production some people forgets to check their default charsets; in the end encoding [...]
There’s an ongoing conversation about filesystem layouts on planet debian.
As Wouter, I find the biggest drawback to multi-filesystem layouts is lack of flexibility when resources are scarce; scarcity means laptops in the Wouter’s post. I’m thinking of long-lived servers in need of upgrades, in particular those with a life of unplanned and ad-hoc growth.
When scarcity [...]
This is the first in a series of tales and anecdotes giving body to the “IT Facilitation” buzzword. It’s the main idea in my new effort as entrepreneur in Ageda.
The web page for Hotel Mayari is simple, the content almost static. Most of the job was mediation, bypassing the limitations frequently found in spanish hosting [...]
Visualtis is now becoming an established local IT consultancy; we still pursue new ventures (taking more fun than ever) but for the most, gone are the days of the early-stage startup-wannabe. Our first years are full of valuable experiences, as Jim Hirshfield says at The Grateful Life: be a student of entrepreneurship at an existing [...]
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