The Musings & Ramblings of Mark Lilback
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Mark is one of the founders of Agile Monks, where he is CTO and the lead Software Architect. He started programming on an Apple II+ in 1981 at the age of 9.
Homepage: http://www.lilback.com/
AIM: mlilback
Posts by mark
My Sysadmin Nightmare, Part 2
Nov 7th
Well, we got a bit of a stay on having to move the servers, but I’m still working on it as fast as I can. I’ve got everything except perl modules installed on the new server.
I’ve already moved: the rtlabs subversion repository, www.rtlabs.com, and all our WebObjects applications. Our databases have been moved, too, but I’ve got a final import of the data from the Oracle server running right now.
I’m also in the process of setting up mail and mailing lists. Then I just need to move blogs.rtlabs.com and www.lilback.com. After that, a switch of dns and all should be good.
An interesting thing I never realized: network solutions’ domain registration also includes dns hosting. If you consider what a lot of places want to charge for dns hosting, that makes their registration fees pretty reasonable.
Voting Blues
Nov 3rd
I just got back from early voting, and once again I’m disgusted by the ballot. Fortunately it was still optical scan, not one of the disastrous touch-screen system. But I really can’t stand seeing the majority of the races only have one candidate listed and no spot for a write-in.
I’m sure some of my elected officials are doing a great job and that’s why no one runs against them. But I can’t believe that is true for all of them. My family has pretty good name recognition (I’ve never gone anywhere with my step-mother without running in to people who know her) and in a small town (approx 20,000) that is really all that is needed. I think I’ll register myself as a candidate for something in 2008. I don’t know if I’ll actually campaign, but there should at least be a challenger on the ballot for every race.
