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The mac’s been running a little slow, so I looked into optimizing it.
I had an NFS export of “/Volumes” (scary) set up in NetInfo, so I removed that by using NetInfo Manager to delete the entry in “/exports”.
GPGMail had an upgrade; version 1.0 kept spawning new “GPGMEProxyServer” processes, fixed in 1.0.2.
Now I need to investigate replacements for iChatStatus, as the “SetiChatStatus” process uses 150mb of virtual memory (to keep my buddy messages in sync with iTunes).

I just updated my Mac OS X backup script and am in the process of copying my files to the external hard drive (”Off-Shore Banking”). I had to get rsyncx to copy the HFS+ forks for all my files.

(Aside: My previous backups, I found out thanks to AEleen Frisch’s presentation about OS X, are invalid because they used a vanilla rsync, which doesn’t copy any HFS+ forks.)
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I’m trying out Weblog Poster as an alternative to Kung-Log/Ecto, because it’s free.

As of October 2004, here’s my list of essential system administration resources:

• Brother p-touch label printer
• cfengine and a local copy of the reference guide
• Google
• Perl
• The Practice of System and Network Administration, Limoncelli and Hogan
• printout of the SA-BOK: the System Administration Body of Knowledge. Use it to explain what you do and measure yourself.
• SAGE membership card and sage-users subscription
• fully automated install process of some kind

and those currently under deliberation:

• A USENIX (or IETF?) conference each year
• Net::SNMP
• Nagios
• Red Hat RPM Guide
• Python
• a wiki of some kind

Since 2002, at least, people have been looking for gnu blogging software.

I found a nice site at Open Source CMS.com that describes some of the major efforts.

I just hopped on over to the NCSSM alumni page and downloaded vCards for some of my friends. I wish that other networking software would give you the same functionality; then I might be more interested in keeping my information up to date.

Curiously, neither friendster nor orkut have an “AIM” field. Maybe war dating scared them off.