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		<title>The extended outage</title>
		<link>http://www.bensbrowning.com/2009/09/15/the-extended-outage/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the extended outage. The dreaded dear-god-when-will-something-go-my-way-damnit outage. Every seasoned admin has had one, whether by accident or (faulty) design. This is the outage that impacts your customers for a long time, bringing pressure on you to &#8220;Just fix it&#8221;. As if it were, you know, like slapping a spare tire on the car or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Invisible Administrator</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was first learning system administration, a senior admin told me &#8220;Good administrators are invisible&#8221;. I did not really understand that at first, but now it&#8217;s one of my prime tenets. For the record, being invisible is very hard. The projector operator is invisible, until the movie cuts out. Likewise the train conductor, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customer perception for systems admins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was first learning system administration, a senior admin told me &#8220;Good administrators are invisible&#8221;. I did not really understand that at first, but now it&#8217;s one of my prime tenets. For the most part, we become visible when things break.  If you have to be visible, manage your visibility.
The first part of being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DD-WRT</title>
		<link>http://www.bensbrowning.com/2008/12/31/dd-wrt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have an XBox and a Wii downstairs, and hopefully soon a blu-ray player, all of which require net connectivity. Upstairs is the office, with a desktop, an older laptop (it&#8217;s the media box upstairs now), and the possibility of other wired connections for temporary gear I may be working on. Since we rent, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zen and the art of scalability</title>
		<link>http://www.bensbrowning.com/2008/12/12/zen-and-the-art-of-scalability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been giving  lot of thought to scalability.
You see, a good portion of my work in the last few years has been scaling things. Junior admins configure and build things. Senior admins and architects are past the point of &#8220;getting $thing to work&#8221; and are into the realm of &#8220;getting $thing to work well [...]]]></description>
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