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Best Berry Cobbler

Topping
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons double-acting baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 tsp cardamom

monitoring: what I want

I've recently shifted from a straight engineering job to a job with a "dev/ops" title. What I have discovered in operations land depresses me. The shoemaker's children are going unshod. Operations software is terrible.

What's driving me craziest right now is my monitoring system.

what I have right now

What I have right now is Nagios.

Mozilla's cloud services need to advance the state of the web in privacy, security, and usability in order to compete and keep the web open. We need a platform that has a user experience closer to mobile where building, signing up, using, and managing apps is easy. We need the cloud to integrate well with our mobile, desktop, and lifestyle devices. We need choice in how our data is used. We need to trust the services we use. To do this we should build a platform that lets us run our cloud apps (service instances) individually, in the cloud or on our own servers.

As technical people, today we can enjoy the benefits of owning some of our web identities and data by running our own services on our own servers. We can register our own domains, manage MX records, setup shared hosting or VPS, make our own blogs, host our own email, and even run our own Firefox Sync service because we own our servers, or at least the data. Even for the most dedicated of us its time consuming and complicated to setup and maintain. It

build

Clone and build Node for analysis:

$ git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
$ cd node
$ export GYP_DEFINES="v8_enable_disassembler=1"
$ ./configure
$ make -j4

Linode Ubuntu 13.04 + Docker

Follow the instructions here: https://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/PV-GRUB#Ubuntu_12.04_Precise

Basically:

apt-get update
apt-get install -y linux-virtual grub-legacy-ec2

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

Running SmartOS under vmware Fusion

From https://gist.github.com/3050224

From http://blog.smartcore.net.au/smartos-the-basics/

Start by downloading the latest live image
Save this file in a permanent place since your setup will need to boot from it permanently
When you run the new VM wizard, select "Continue without disk" on the first screen of the wizard.
Select Sun Solaris / Solaris 10 64-bit on the next screen.

	/****************************************************************************/
	/* AM335x_PRU.cmd */
	/* Copyright (c) 2015 Texas Instruments Incorporated */
	/* */
	/* Description: This file is a linker command file that can be used for */
	/* linking PRU programs built with the C compiler and */
	/* the resulting .out file on an AM335x device. */
	/****************************************************************************/

	-cr /* Link using C conventions */