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Datacenter Migration, Relocation, and New Ventures

Datacenter Migration, Relocation, and New Ventures
As many of you know I have decided to shift gears and accept a position with Silicon Valley startup Ning. With this transition I am migrating all  of my websites back over to linode. As a previous customer of linode I know that their service is reliable and they provide all of the features that an experienced I.T. professional is looking for including IPv6. Over the next few day’s I will be updating my servers to have IPv6 compatibility and networking which will give me the ability to host this blog in IPv4 as well as IPv6 address space. Following these updates I will document some of the...
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What are your “Gallup Strengths”?

Per the Gallup website: “The best-led organizations know that the most direct path to individual, team, and organizational improvement begins with a primary investment in their employees’ greatest talents. The key is to discover what’s naturally right with people, then build on it.” So what are yours? Here are my top 5: Achiever – “People strong in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina and work hard. They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive.” Competition – “People strong in the Competition theme measure their progress...
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autofs – mini “how to” as requested

This is a very high level revision of my previous post on autofs which outlines only the process to automount a home directory via NFS. Edit: /etc/auto.master Add: /home /etc/auto.home Edit: /etc/auto.home Add: * nfs.example.com:/home/& Once you are at this point you should be able to login and test.
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