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Wednesday, August 11, 2021

A Final Comment on "Zywicki v. Wade"

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I was going to leave this as a comment on this thread (https://crookedtimber.org/2021/08/06/zywicki-vs-wade/#comments) over at Crooked Timb...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Distributing Razor Events Using Pub/Sub (3/N)

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So yeah, it seems that all ESB systems are complicated to some degree. Having struck out with WSo2 I did a brief survey of other FOSS ESB o...

Distributing Razor Events Using Pub/Sub (2/N)

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You know how everyone talks about enterprise busses, but you've never met anyone who actually has one in production? Its because they...

Distributing Razor Events Using Pub/Sub (1/N)

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One of the avenues left unexplored during our tinkerings with Razor was how the various events it emits might be put to good use. It knows ...
Friday, June 28, 2019

Bare Metal Management With Razor (4/N)

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Having digressed into issues of gender and Twitter censorship , let's get back to talking about Razor. I'm pretty happy with the s...

Who Could Have Foreseen?

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On the face if it, its silly that Twitter blocked David Neiwert's account . But... THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE SAID WOULD HAPPEN!!! Please...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Is Sex Or Gender Assigned At Birth

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This started out as a footnote to my previous post , but it turns out that there's enough meat on the bone to merit its own discussion. ...

Are You Still On Your Default Name?

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Overhead in one of our office Slack channels: trans people don't say "did you assume my gender" we say "nice gender did...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

When Orders Collide

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So, what happens when first-order and second-order arguments get entangled? You get a mess, that's what. Justin Weinberg, in his recent...

Interpreting And Taking Action On Requests To "Feel X"

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Feelings are endogenous; that seems to be the upshot of the many and varied exhortations that we stop telling people how they should feel . ...

But Wait! I Thought Everyone Rejected the Repugnant Conclusion?

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Just a reminder that total happiness utilitarians are not a bogeyman; they actually exist in the wild. To wit, Torbjörn Tännsjö says : The...

Bare Metal Management With Razor (3/N)

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We got our PXE systems up and running on the Razor Microkernel . Next step is to image them! Imaging with Razor is a two-step process: De...

Bare Metal Management With Razor (2/N)

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Having set up our Razor environment , it's now time to put it through its paces. The first order of business is to get a VM or two up an...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Bare Metal Management With Razor (1/N)

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Last episode, I spent a little time messing around with Foreman , and eventually came to the conclusion that it's not quite the tool tha...
Monday, April 29, 2019

Using Foreman For Bare Metal Provisioning (2/N)

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We've got a testbed for Foreman in place, so let's see what it takes to get it up and running. I'll be following the CentOS 7 i...