sysadmin’s sojourn

At work I have a desktop and a laptop and have been sharing the keyboard and mouse by using Synergy from the command line, which gets to be a real PITA to manage whenever I have to reboot.

But, I recently stumbled across a GUI/PrefPane to manage Synergy on OSX. It is called SynergyKM.

It gives you a nice gui to:

* Configure Synergy as a server
* Configure Synergy as a client
* Enable Bonjour for Synergy

Below is a screenshot of the preference pane.

If you are using Synergy on OSX, I highly recommend giving SynergyKM a spin.

Epic writer, blogger, and all around awesome guy, Rands, blogged yesterday about his summers reading, as a child and how he was decided to do a limited run of Rands t-shirt to support the non-profit First Book.

I highly encourage you all to buy a t-shirt, like I did, in support of promoting reading and literacy.

I am heading to LISA ‘08 tomorrow afternoon and will be attending the follow tech sessions.

Wed:
Morning: Keynote
Morning: Programming the Virtual Infrastructure
Afternoon: MySQL: Guru Talk
Afternoon: Spine: Automating Systems Configuration and Management (maybe Hallway track :)

Thurs:
Morning: Plenary Session
Morning: VMware: Guru Talk
Afternoon: Time Management: Guru Talk w/ Tom A. Limoncelli (wooooo!!!!)
Afternoon: WTFM: Documentation and the System Administrator

Fri:
Morning: Plenary Session
Morning: AFS Talk / Configuration Management w/ Puppet: Guru Talk
Afternoon: Lunch Talk: “Stand Deviations…”
Afternoon: System Administration and the Economics of Plenty
Evening: LISA Quiz Show

Look for the black Macbook Pro with LOPSA and Python stickers, if you want to look me up!

I will also be online in #lisa08 and #lopsa on Freenode, my handle is solarce.

More to come.

It’s been a while. Shortly after I attempted to start doing regular posting, Jessica had some complications with her pregnancy, we moved, my work moved, school started, and we had a beautiful baby girl.

So, all in all I have been quite busy and sadly have not kept up on my blogging or GHDR resolutions. Things are quieting down, so we shall see.

I got an invitation to the EverNote 3.0 beta today. So I will be playing with that and I have 10 invitations to give away. If you want one, look me up on twitter.

Welcome to inatree.org, the blog of Brandon Bowman. I have had this blog in one form or another since September of 2004, during which time it has mostly lay dormant. I’ve had more posts about new content Real Soon Now(TM) than I have had good content. Once again I am hoping to change that.

My intention is to have this be a blog about the topics I am interested and involved with. First among these is productivity, I draw a lot of inspiration from Merlin Mann and David Seah, and so I will be writing about my personal involvement in the productivity “movement” and my growth in this area. I will also be writing about technology, mostly what intersects with my work life, so you will see an interesting mix of things from Outlook, OneNote, and SharePoint to Ubuntu, Python, and open source.

To find out more about me see the About page and to get in touch with me, see the Contact page.

I hope that you will enjoy my experiment in blogging to share my knowledge and experience, and to *selfishly* use this blog to empty my head and help track my 2008 GHDR goals. More on GHDR later.