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Re: Pro Nagios 2.0

James Turnbull — Mon, 29 May 2006 23:44:48 -0000

Jan-Piet

Thanks for the kind review. Is it all the files in the source file package? The files were prepared on a Unix box so I think something must have gone wrong on the Apress end - can you let me know?

thanks

James Turnbull

Re: Pro Nagios 2.0

James Turnbull — Tue, 30 May 2006 05:07:43 -0000

Jan-Piet

Thanks for the feedback - I have checked the original file which seems fine and re-sent it to Apress! Your pick-up of this issue is much appreciated.

Regards

James Turnbull

Re: Power-User Email with the Sidekick

James Turnbull — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:52:23 -0000

Excellent tip! Thanks for this. I just set it up with sieve (not a procmail fan). You can see the recipe below:

if address "return-path" "email@hiptop.com.au" {

addflag "\\Seen";

fileinto "Sent";

stop;

}

*insert whatever filing/anti-spam stuff in here*

if size :under 100K {

redirect "email@hiptop.com.au";

keep;

}

keep;

Re: Metallica Linked by a Hair to the Taliban

James Turnbull — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:28:54 -0000

It's profiling - I (also bearded) got hit with the same thing at Dulles Airport a couple of years ago. Got pulled up for 'special' screening because I matched the 'general description' (i.e. have a beard) of a terrorist.

Naturally though - employ lowest common denominator tactics and you'll end up with lowest common denominator results.

Re: Puppet troubles

James Turnbull — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:09:23 -0000

Hi there! Sorry to hear of your troubles.

Just wanted to mention that if you check page 31 of the book (the paper version) you'll find that this is discussed. It describes that versions newer than 0.23 look for /etc/puppet/puppet.conf whilst older versions still look for /etc/puppet/binaryname.conf.

Feel free to email me any additional feedback! Thanks for reading!

Re: In Praise of Snobbery

James Turnbull — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:37:28 -0000

Application snob
Code snob
Food snob...

Re: iPhone thoughts so far

James Turnbull — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:40:13 -0000

I like my iPhone but I have two words - cut and paste - it's not fucking rocket science Apple. Oh and iPhone Mail should have search. Search is not hard. Really. Easy.

Re: EngineYard uses Chef, a Puppet Alternative

James Turnbull — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:46:02 -0000

Great post. I too look forward to seeing where it all ends up.

Re: Author’s Guild calls Kindle 2′s text-to-speech software illegal

James Turnbull — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:14:00 -0000

Thanks Tim for the non-hysterical answer.

Whilst I don't agree with the way the AG has articulated this (even though I am an author) I can see where the response comes from. Authors barely make a living as it is (and many don't make a living at all) and the possibility that another line of revenue in the form of audiobook royalties might disappear has to worry people. Hence the somewhat poorly articulated, knee-jerk reaction.

Re: Everything old is new again

James Turnbull — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:13:23 -0000

Pick. That takes me back. I am having nightmares about debugging Pick systems in retail - they used to be everywhere as POS systems... Hell probably still are in a lot of places.

Re: All about Puppet storeconfigs

James Turnbull — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:23:24 -0000

I had a poke at CouchDB and talked to some people about it. I personally don't think it'll scale well, its not overly faster and its somewhat immature. Now a memcached implementation sounds very interesting.

Re: Current TV Journalists Sentenced To 12 Years In North Korean Labor Camp

James Turnbull — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:25:46 -0000

They didn't do anything wrong. It's geopolitics.

And "way out of line"? They are a totalitarian dictatorship with no civil liberties and a legal system controlled by the ruling regime. It's not a matter of them being out of line so much as providing them with a bargaining chip with the US. They'll give the journalists back - in exchange for something they want from the US government.

Re: Current TV Journalists Sentenced To 12 Years In North Korean Labor Camp

James Turnbull — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:28:30 -0000

Oh bollocks. I'm the first one to comment about Americans and their inability to respect local laws and customs but in this case it's politics - nothing more.

Re: NSFW: Bringing Nothing To TechCrunch, And A Brand New Reality To The Unter-Trolls

James Turnbull — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:34:53 -0000

No - Spider would be much, much worse. Nowhere near enough profanity and drugs. That's like tame Spider.

Re: NSFW: Bringing Nothing To TechCrunch, And A Brand New Reality To The Unter-Trolls

James Turnbull — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:36:22 -0000

P.S. I can't punctuate either.

Re: Oooh Dramatic! Twitter Gets DDOSed

James Turnbull — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:00:59 -0000

It's a DDoS - the attack vector has nothing to do with compromising local security - it's an attack that throws traffic at the site until it stops.

Re: Coincidence? Three Interesting Things About 345 Spear Street, San Francisco

James Turnbull — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:51:38 -0000

Easy - Google is working with the US Government to redesign Echelon - the world's largest monitoring and comms interception tool.

The new version gEchelon, whilst it will never make it out of beta, will allow the US Government to query any intercepted communication via Google's search technology.

To ensure the systems remains secret, secure and not subject to US law it will be hosted offshore on Google's new floating data centres - all moored in international waters.

Re: Coincidence? Three Interesting Things About 345 Spear Street, San Francisco

James Turnbull — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:53:15 -0000

Oh - and the "Drunk" plate? It's a new stealth gEchelon Street View monitoring vehicle.

Re: Coincidence? Three Interesting Things About 345 Spear Street, San Francisco

James Turnbull — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:00:48 -0000

Now I know my theory is right! Google/USSS are copying and feeding my comments into a new spambot/malware tool called "Tony". The comments are being duplicated on websites everywhere to discredit me.

Re: WITTC50?: Courtesy of the red, white and blue? Let's show some at TC50

James Turnbull — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:42:29 -0000

Well said, sir, well said. *claps*

Re: NSFW%3A+After+Fort+Hood%2C+another+example+of+how+%26%2339%3Bcitizen+journalists%26%2339%3B+can%26%2339%3Bt+handle+the%26nbsp%3Btruth

James Turnbull — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:07:15 -0000

Where is the middle ground though? The media has flaws, numerous ones, and has been bought, sold, corrupted, unethical and inept all on its own.

Citizen journalism may be flawed in many ways but ask yourself if the mainstream media always truly serves the public interest? I don't think it always does and whilst it does not then citizen journalism not only has a place in the world but may actually be critical to ensure that the truth is heard.

Re: Shell Scripting DSL in Ruby

James Turnbull — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:09:48 -0000

Interesting post. There is also the classic Capistrano - http://www.capify.org/index... - to run commands via SSH on multiple hosts.

In addition, you can also run Puppet without all the daemon stuff too - just write your manifest and pipe it into the puppet binary. That's the way I usually do quick-and-dirty stand-alone configuration management.

Re: Dear FDA, Gimme My iMac

James Turnbull — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:57:39 -0000

Or the TechCrunch office. :)

Re: Pratchett's "Unseen Academicals" - a gift to Discworld lovers and an argument for the importance of sport

James Turnbull — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:00:57 -0000

I agree with Light. The book felt wrong like it was ghost written. Vetinari's behaviour and demaneour, for example, was vastly different from previous books. I really didn't enjoy it.

Though I agree with Cory on Monstrous Regiment - not my number one but in the top 5. Mine is probably Nightwatch, The Fifth Elephant or Feet of Clay.

Re: NSFW: The Physical Impossibility of The Future in the Mind of Someone Trapped In Chicago

James Turnbull — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:10:50 -0000

You'd compare the sights of Rome with Chicago? 2500 thousand years of history, heart of the Roman Empire, the Sistine Chapel, the Colosseum, incredible food and wine, beautiful city and people with what? Wrigley Field? *lol*

Americans.