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Fri Jan 6 06:55:45 EST 2017
Slept from 10:30 to 5:30.
High of seventeen today, and a chance of snow. Wind chill down to -4.
Work:
- Wrap up PR network issues
Done.
- Review invoices
Done.
- Meet with auditors
Done.
- Test Asterisk processor queue log monitor after the end of the day
Done.
It worked!
Learned about linux's ip-rule(8), and its routing policy database that, in addition to routing on the traditional packet destination address, can also route on source address, IP protocol, transport protocol ports or even packet payload. Good to know.
Chef and Microsoft's Desired State Configuration
Chef DSC Master Adam Edwards and Jeffrey Snover of Microsoft discuss DSC integration with Chef.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXaAIawzNic
> Unix is a document-oriented operating system. Everything is a document. All management tools do exactly two things: they edit files and they restart processes. In that context, awk, grep, sed --- these are management tools. When you took these tools and put them on Windows, they didn't help you at all. The reason is the core architectural difference between unix and Windows. Unix is a document-oriented operating system, but Windows is an **API-oriented** operating system. So awk didn't work against wmi, sed didn't work against the registry, grep didn't work against Active Directory. All the interesting stuff you want to do on Windows is hidden behind some API. It's a challenge. Putting unix tools on Windows didn't help, so we had to invent PowerShell. PowerShell is as simple as trying to implement the unix composable model, but working on API's instead of documents, and we flow objects through our pipeline instead of text.
Saw a couple of crows flying when I went to get Thai food.
Resumed work on Raspberry Pi thin client project (after almost a year!).
Home:
- D&D something. Draw or write or whatever.
Tweaked Danger Jaunt.
https://www.twitch.tv/seebotschat
Two Google Home bots chatting with each other.
They named them "Vladimir" and "Estragon". Ha.
https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/xl/the-isdalen-mystery-1.13249066
> A woman lies dead and severely burned in a scree slope outside the centre of Bergen. All clues to who she might be, have been removed. No one has made any progress in this case – until now.
Clear sky tonight. Half a moon and a very bright Venus.
Too cold out. I didn't feel like walking outside, but I paced around inside for fifteen minutes.
Watched a couple of episodes of Dicte.
Not a bad week. Productive and accomplished at work. Generally, in a pretty good mood.
Breakfast: carrots, coffee
Lunch: Thai noodles
Dinner: Italian sub, fries
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