The leaves are a’ changin’

Had another fantastic week and weekend. At work, we’ve been exploring various NAS solutions and weighing the pros/cons of various options and price points. I’ve been writing a lot of “collector/reporter” scripts, collecting some piece of information from our various machines, stuffing all that into a database, and then producing interesting/informative reports so we as Unix administrators can make better decisions. I’ve also had an enjoyable time tweaking our automation for patching and building out new servers — it’s becoming a well oiled machine!

A few weeks ago, I signed up a wide range of system administrator blogs from both recommendations (by google reader and friends), and by reading linked blog articles, and subscribing to those I enjoyed. In these few weeks, I’ve found a treasure trove of information from interesting articles.

Here’s my current Google Reader subscription list (with favorites bolded). Amazingly, I’m not overwhelmed with reading, but I do get one or two good articles a day — I suggest Google Reader to anyone with a list of sites they visit daily.

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mytvrss [http://www.mytvrss.com/tvrss.xml?id=910807]

Unix Sys Admin

A Unix System Administrator’s Blog [http://www.sysadmindayph.com/blog/feed/]
Admin Arsenal Blog [http://feeds2.feedburner.com/AdminArsenal]
BASH Cures Cancer [http://feeds.feedburner.com/BashCuresCancer]
c0t0d0s0.org [http://feeds.feedburner.com/Wwwc0t0d0s0org]
cmdln.org (a sysadmin blog) [http://www.cmdln.org/feed/]
Everything Sysadmin [http://feeds.everythingsysadmin.com/EverythingSysadmin]
F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog [http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/weblog.rss]
Field Commander Wieers [http://dag.wieers.com/blog/rss.xml]
Last In – First Out [http://lastinfirstout.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default]
Learning solaris 10 [http://learning-solaris.com/feed/]
Linux Journal – The Original Magazine of the Linux Community [http://feeds.feedburner.com/linuxjournalcom]
MDLog:/sysadmin [http://www.ducea.com/feed/]
My Etherealmind [http://feeds.feedburner.com/etherealmind]
My SysAd Blog — Unix [http://feeds.feedburner.com/sysad]
nixCraft Linux Sys Admin Blog [http://feeds.cyberciti.biz/Nixcraft-LinuxFreebsdSolarisTipsTricks]
Planet CentOS [http://planet.centos.org/atom.xml]
Red Hat Knowledgebase : Article List – English [http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/community/feeds/documents?community=2001]
Standalone Sysadmin [http://feeds.feedburner.com/standalone-sysadmin/rWoU]
Sysadmin Ramblings [http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/feed/]
SysAdmin’s Journey [http://feeds.feedburner.com/AUnixSysadminsJourney]
TechRepublic Blogs [http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/wp-rss2.php]
The Blog of Ben Rockwood [http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/rss.xml]
The Life of a Sysadmin [http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/blog/rss2.xml]
The Lone Sysadmin [http://lonesysadmin.net/feed/]
The Storage Architect [http://thestoragearchitect.com/feed/]
The Sys Admin [http://www.syadmin.net/blog/?feed=rss2]
UNIX Administratosphere [http://administratosphere.wordpress.com/feed/]
unixville – the house of unix [http://www.unixville.com/rss.xml]
Utah Open Source Planet [http://openclue.org/feed/rss/]
VCritical [http://feeds.feedburner.com/vcritical]

Deals

DealCatcher.com [http://www.dealcatcher.com/rss.asp]
Newegg.com RSS Feed – Daily Deals [http://www.newegg.com/Product/RSS.asp?Submit=RSSDailyDeals]
Woot! strainer [http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=Arg4xfK92xGoZliMzKky6g&_render=rss]

Hardware

*Hack a Day* [http://www.hackaday.com/rss.xml]
Engadget [http://www.engadget.com/rss.xml]

Developers

Joel on Software [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/rss.xml]
OSWD: Open Source Web Design [http://www.oswd.org/rss/]
Racker Hacker [http://rackerhacker.com/feed/]
Ruby Fleebie [http://www.rubyfleebie.com/feed/]
Scott James Remnant [http://www.netsplit.com/feed/]
The Rubylution [http://rubylution.ping.de/xml/rss/feed.xml]
VoIP Tech Chat [http://www.voiptechchat.com/feed/]
Zscaler Research [http://research.zscaler.com/feeds/posts/default]

Comics

Ctrl+Alt+Del [http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=xtNQ0GR63BG1G2RmnkartA&_render=rss]
Cyanide and Happiness – Only the comics [http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=9b91d1900e14d1caff163aa6fa1b24bd&_render=rss]
Dilbert Daily Strip [http://feeds.feedburner.com/DilbertDailyStrip?format=xml]
Penny Arcade – Comics [http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=d3088cbf172e042ebe763037aa4d402e&_render=rss]
xkcd.com [http://xkcd.com/rss.xml]

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