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Ben Rockwood
Personal blog · cuddletech.com/blogsystemsprogramming
Ben Rockwood writes Cuddletech, a personal blog at cuddletech.com about systems and programming. Since 2007, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “How a sysadmin can become a programmer”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ben Rockwood's blog for views on OpenSolaris and Solaris service management (SMF), and for posts on how sysadmins can become programmers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How a sysadmin can become a programmer4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-05-13
What Hacker News says?
Here's a view from a prominent member of the (rather small) OpenSolaris community: http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=1134 He's not exactly impressed.
Comment linking /blog/pivot/entry.php?id=1134
on “OpenSolaris governing board threatens dissolution”Submitted A Return to Linux on the Workstation as a story · 93 points
HN discussionWhy not link to the blog post directly? This link will break as soon as the author writes another blog post about devops. http://cuddletech.com/blog/?p=817
Comment linking /blog/?p=817
on “How a sysadmin can become a programmer”Submitted How a sysadmin can become a programmer as a story · 75 points
HN discussionThe linked criticism of SMF [1] suggests that the author tried really hard to use the XML-based declarative configuration. I'm pretty sure that the things he accomplished with those commands are straight-forward <dependency> and/or <dependent> elements in the appropriate manifest. Like with systemd that came later, a sysadmin can copy a system-provided manifest from /usr/... to /etc/..., modify it, then apply it to…
Comment linking /2008/04/smf-manifest-generator/
on “The history (sort of) of service management in Unix”Submitted Solaris is no longer free as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenSolaris Governing Board Threatens to Shoot Itself In The Head as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Letter to Oracle: (Open)Solaris Roadmap as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why SysAdmin’s Can’t Code as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why SysAdmin’s Can’t Code as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Hashicorp Vault as a PKI SSL/TLS CA as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding ZFS: Transaction Groups & Disk Performance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Sysadmin's Can't Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ars Gratia Artis - don't do devops/the cloud just because as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Devops Demystified as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding xVM: Foundations (virtualization on Solaris) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Showmanship of Steve Jobs, 20 Years Ago as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling: How Grid-Server's scaling might be setup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted It’s Time for a Personal Security Cleanup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zdb: Examining ZFS at Point-Blank Range (2008) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Team of Teams and Complexity: An Approach for Breaking Down Silos as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with RRDtool (2004) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted SmartOS and Vagrant as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Policy & Process in the Blood as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nothing New Under the Sun: An Introduction to Operations Management as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Devops: The Re-emergance of Systems Engineering as a Discipline as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ben Rockwood on Time Management Tips from Randy Pausch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted VDbench: The Amazing Swiss Army Knife of Benchmarks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Oracle OpenWorld Keynote: Scott & Larry as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenSolaris in the real world by JoyNet as a story · 1 points
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