1800 miles, 4 states, 2 hours on the tarmac, 1 hour job interview, 20 hour day, now I’m home. Yesterday started at 4:30am with my alarm going off, after a fitful 3 hours of sleep, yes I’m a procrastinator was up to midnight packing the laptop,...

I came across Thomas Maier-Komor’s home page when I found this cool utility he wrote xjobs, it takes what xargs does and makes it multicore aware so that it starts x number of jobs to get things done faster, which is really cool to me. Before xjobs I...

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Lately I have been working on system monitoring scripts and decided to take Ben Rockwood’s ZFS ARC summary script and convert it to output in html format. This is just the first step I will be working on a configuration file to use MRTG to track this...