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DevOps is an approach to bridge the gap between agile software development and operations. The DevOps tribe is a growing group of people practicing a new way of combining development and system administration for more speed, quality, revenues, and fun.
Downloading OpenSolaris packages from pkg.opensolaris.org is extremely slow, at least here in Germany. As we were planning to upgrade our OpenSolaris boxes from 2008.11 to 2009.06 during a downtime, we needed a significant speedup.
Package Repository Mirrors
Fortunately, it’s pretty simple to setup a mirror yourself. Just grab the 7.2 GB disk image of the complete repository [...]
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Every workplace has one, and even if you contract it out, you still have to interact with a System Administrator to get important IT work done. If you’re introducing Agile methodologies at your company, you might have run into a brick wall of sorts back there in that corner room – the [...]
Most of us have seen, or at least heard of, the Mel Gibson movie “What Women Want”. It certainly is a tantalizing idea – being able to read the thoughts of other people. Now being able to read your sysadmin’s mind may not be at the top of your wish list, but, I bet [...]
