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Hi all, hoping someone may have encountered a problem similar to this before: On my customer''s EC2 based infrastructure, we have implemented the nodeless, truth driven module outlined by Jordan Sissel here http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/geekery/puppet-nodeless-configuration. It''s quite an effective model, especially in the realm of EC2... we still have a puppetmaster configuration, and have decided not to go with the masterless option, since we''d like to implement a nagios module using the storeconfigs approach and ex...

Hi all We''re pleased to announce Zach Leslie has joined us as an Operations Engineer. Zach is going to be managing internal infrastructure and support as well as getting involved here and on IRC in helping people out with issues. Zach had this to say about himself: *** My professional geekery started as a sysadmin for a small start-up while I was studying open source and deciding to go to school. Once I scripted myself out of a job, it was then on to call center support before working for a small ISP in the Denver area as a systems engineer, but there wasn''t enough open source...

The html document various characters like ? \xa0 ? \xa9 (Copyright symbol) (and others). I tried using html2text.py but it didn't like these characters. Any ideas on how I can use iconv or another tool to convert documents like this so I can then convert to Markdown? I don't want to do manually as I have around 500+ documents. Jeremy C. Reed

Hi, Over a serial emulation provided by the BIOS, I get the PXELINUX boot prompt all right. Now, how do I send F1 to get a help screen? It's not PXELINUX specific, of course, F1 would also come helpful for entering the BIOS Setup program. Its accross telnet running in an SSH session from an UTF-8 xterm, as it probably matters. I would be grateful for any insight. -- Regards, Feri.

Dear all, we''re currently looking forward to restructure our hardware environment for our datawarehousing product/suite/solution/whatever. We''re currently running the database side on various SF V440''s attached via dual FC to our SAN backend (EMC DMX3) with UFS. The storage system is (obviously in a SAN) shared between many systems. Performance is mediocre in terms