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    An Impostor's Blog

    Feb 2, 2017  | 6 min read
     | Chris Zietlow Profile Image Chris Zietlow

    Recovering Software Engineer, Philomath, Shitty Photographer, Technologist, believes the oxford comma isn't optional.

    An Impostor's Blog

    After a year and a half, I'm finally getting around to launching my new blog. That's a lot of time for a small static website. That should mean that this blog is packed full of innovative technologies, captivating designs, and polished features, right? It has to be perfect. Thankfully this is not perfect, or so I keep …

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    Getting started with Upstart

    Oct 17, 2013  | 2 min read
     | Chris Zietlow Profile Image Chris Zietlow

    Recovering Software Engineer, Philomath, Shitty Photographer, Technologist, believes the oxford comma isn't optional.

    Upstart is an event based monitoring system for monitoring and controlling services and daemons. Upstart is meant to be a replacement for the older System V init.d start up scripts with better optimizations in parrelism and boot time. It can be used to run serveral one off tasks, like that of any shell script, or can …

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    Fun linux Terminal Tools

    May 31, 2012  | 1 min read
     | Chris Zietlow Profile Image Chris Zietlow

    Recovering Software Engineer, Philomath, Shitty Photographer, Technologist, believes the oxford comma isn't optional.

    Anyone with a UNIX based machine (Linux or MAC) has access to a terminal. Anyone with a Linux computer has almost undoubtedly dabbled with command line utilities for some period of time. Here are a few little known terminal tools that I found interesting. I'll give examples of the tools, though it's worth noting that …

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