I guess saying "it's been a while" would be an understatement. I am sorry blog, I have ignored you for so long. I guess part of it was I have been busy but I think most of it was that I ran out of fun things to say. Most of what I do for work (unix conformance) is not very exciting to anyone but the handful of us that do. My main source of fun topics was my husband, who was working as a Solaris (and Linux) sysadmin for a university. Now he has moved to a new position focused strictly on email and not as general sysadmin, so his stories are less related to Solaris and not nearly as fun. (Though he did notice the big drop in spam this week as McColo was taken offline, that was pretty interesting.)
 
I finally will have some interesting stories of my own to relate. I have joined the board of directors for a non-profit as the technical director for the organization. No, I am still doing my day job. I guess this would count as a glorified hobby since it is all volunteer time. This hobby is going to allow me to completely design and direct the development of a new infrastructure for our organization of 29,000 members, 109 different local sites (with their own associated web forums), and 400,000 page hits a day to the web server (and everything growing fast). I've convinced them to take the plunge and we're moving to OpenSolaris for the entire network. I will finally get to use in a production environment all the cool tools I've barely been able to make use of, and many I've only just gotten to read about.
 
Step one is to migrate the existing set up from Ubuntu to OpenSolaris, and to new hardware in a new co-location facility. On paper, it seems like it should not be too difficult. All the key apps (apache, mysql, postfix, and phpbb) and their configuration work under Solaris. But, I know how migrations go and I am sure some adventures are in store for me.
 
So, hold on to your hats and glasses... things are likely to get interesting from here on out!