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My Top 17 Favorite Posts of 2007
Saturday, December 15th, 2007The first question is, “If you are the only person who laughs at your joke is it still funny?” If your answer is “No,” then I strongly advise you not to read this blog entry.
They Might be Giants
Friday, September 21st, 2007Did you ever see the move They Might be Giants with George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward? It is a great movie.
Infrastructure 2.0
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007Last Sunday, the day after BarCampNashville, I had lunch with Luke Kanies, the owner of Reductive Labs and the author of Puppet. It became a working lunch due to all my questions about his product. I first met Luke at OSCON 2007 during his Puppet session. I hadn’t planned to attend the Puppet session because […]
My Views on OSS ESM (Part 3)
Thursday, August 16th, 2007Coincidentally, I had a conversation yesterday with two of the ten largest banks in the world. Both told me that 2008 looks to be a possible greenfield for some of their ESM initiatives, or, in other words, a do-over. Before I could even ask, they started talking about open source. One of […]
What do O’reilly, Shuttleworth, Fogel, Wales, and a bowling alley have in common?
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007At OSCON 2007 I asked Tim O’reilly and Mark Shuttleworth a question in the Q&A in their keynote. Being an instructor by trade affords you an extra sensory skill set in asking questions after presentations. I asked this question “Where is the free, going on here? I see a small few making […]
BarCampESM
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007Â
Yesterday whurley (BMC), Mark Hinkle (Zenoss), and myself were sitting around trying to solve all the worlds ESM problems. After our second round of margaritas we aksed whurley why don’t we do one. Twenty four hours latter it’s done. Whurley is amazing…
http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-whurley/whurley/summer-camp-for-systems-management-vendors
 http://barcamp.org/barcampesm
http://blog.zenoss.com/2007/08/08/systems-management-barcamp/
You can never go without a coat in the summer in the city of San Francisco
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007Although Samuel Clemens is often attributed to the “Coldest winter I ever spent was the summer I spent in San Francisco†he never said it. In fact, if I had to guess my money is on Oscar Wilde. What Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Clemens) did say is “you can never go without a coat in […]
My First Open Source Conference OSCON 2007
Sunday, July 29th, 2007Not another OSCON 2007 Wrap up Blog?
This was my first open source convention and I was blown away.  I only spent two days (Wednesday and Thursday) but I had a wonderful time.  Not only were there tons of technical resources but there were mind blowing discussions about people and life going on all around. […]
Who woke up Big Blue and does this mean IBM likes Nagios?
Saturday, July 28th, 2007After the kids go to bed I do silly things on my computer like search different keywords on different vendors sites. Last night I found an intersting one that was posted about a week ago - Nagios. Look out gang the Big Guy finally woke up.Â
Leverage Nagios with plug-ins you write
Back to the Future IV
Friday, July 27th, 2007Yep, that old Marty McFly has gotten him self into a fine mess again and yes he has a skateboard. This time he has got his work cut out for him. He was sent back in time not to Hill Valley but to Houston Texas to rescue a software company called BMC. His […]
Top ten things you will never see at a Tivoli conference
Thursday, July 26th, 2007If you have been reading my blog you know I am in Portland this week at OSCON 2007. I have some intersting cultural difference I would like to share in a classic top ten format…
Top ten things you will never see at a Tivoli conference
1) A job postings board.
2) More Macbooks than IBM […]
My blog todo list (or wishlist)
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007These are some topics I want to talk about but because I really stink at writing it takes me a lot longer to get my thoughts down where they make sense. However, if anyone want to start on any of these topics early I’m all in…
1) Situational Ethics and Open Source - Is this […]
OSON 2007 Update (Only two fights so far)
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 Anyone who knows me knows I have been annoying presenters at conferences for over 30 years. Ask the folks at IBM (Heath and Chris be thankful I just started blogging). Well I have been here for two hours and and I have already gotten into an argument with Mark Shuttleworth from Ubuntu and Tim O’Reilly.  The argument […]
Off to OSCON 2007 this morning
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007I’ll be the short fat guy with an old worn out Tivoli shirt that my wife has been tring to throw out for years. Sorry honey I snuck it my bag…Â
Tertium non datur
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007Commercial Open Source Software » Open Source Ecosystems: some considerations
I think it is important to stress once more that there are just two ways to make money from OSS: “best code here†and “best knowledge hereâ€, tertium non datur.
OSCON 2007 - Sessions I plan on attending …
Monday, July 23rd, 2007Wednesday:
Open Source on the O’Reilly Radar
OpenNMS Case Studies
Network Monitoring with Nagios
Playing by the Rules: Getting Corporate Blessing to Use Open Source Software
Using Puppet to Manage Your Network
BOF Session - Business Collaboration - Rod Beckstrom
Thursday:
State of Lightning Talks
Building an Open Hardware Platform
Dispelling Legal Myths: Things OSS Developers […]
OSCON 2007 BOF Session- ESM OSS Big 4 vs. Little 4
Monday, July 23rd, 2007Big 4 vs. Little 4
I have put togenther an outline for the BOF session and a draft topic template for my  session Thursday, July 26 from 7:30-8:30pm in Room F150. O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2007 • July 23-27, 2007 • Portland, Oregon.
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