I wanted to get into a regular exercise routine, but I have a really hard time getting into a routine doing something I really don’t enjoy. In the past I’ve tried to get into running on my treadmill. Running on the treadmill is really hard for me – my mind starts to wander and I get utterly bored after only a few minutes. Even with music or Netflix to distract me while I run, I just can’t do it. My attempts to get into a running routine typically last around one week. I have decided to run an experiment of drumming as exercise routine, and see what happens. I have a lot of respect for people with the discipline to keep up an exercise routine.
A good Linux init script that works across multiple distros is hard to find. Most distros have a sample/skeleton init script to base your own init scripts on, but that requires having a separate init script for each distro. For the Stackify Linux agent I wanted to have a single init script that would work on all common Linux distros. I had a decent init script that worked pretty well for ‘start’ and ‘stop’ commands, but not so much for ‘status’. The ‘status’ command worked on my development machine (Ubuntu) but didn’t work on the other distros I was testing on (CentOS/Redhat/Amazon).
I am by no means a music critic, but typically at the end of the year I put together a list of my favorite music from the past year, albeit normally within the privacy of my own head. This year I decided I would make the list public. My musical tastes seem to be pretty eclectic and all over the board. Sometimes the albums that make it onto my list are a surprise even to myself. This year there are 2 albums on my list that I initially did not like, but have grown a lot on me. So without further adieu, here is my favorite music of 2012, in no particular order:
