This week we talk about network documentation and alerts! What makes a good alert? When should you tap a human on the shoulder, and what should be left to the backlog?
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01:50 Music Production On Linux - William
MuseScore (https://musescore.org/en)
LMMS (https://lmms.io/)
Audacity (https://www.audacityteam.org/)
Write in if you do music on Linux!
05:45 DIY Smart Plug - Charlie
Instructables (https://www.instructables.com/Plug-It-Open-Source-Smart-Plug/)
TH3D Studio (https://www.th3dstudio.com/product/ezplug-open-source-wifi-smart-plug/)
Enough electricity it could kill you
09:15 Thoughts from the AMA - Steve S
"good enough"
"Class of tool" vs "disposable"
CLECs moving away from copper
Convert to VOIP and ATA
Cell companies not held to the same standard
Right tool for the right job
17:30 Frappe.io - theendbeta
Frappe.io (https://frappe.io/products)
Looks cool
Lots of apps
Haven't used it
22:00 News Wire
Perl 5.40 - Perl Doc (https://perldoc.perl.org/perldelta)
Tor Browser 13.0.16 - Tor Project (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-13016/)
Firefox 127 - Mozilla (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/127.0/releasenotes/)
ICEWM 3.6 - Github (https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm/releases/tag/3.6.0)
Cinnamon 6.2 - OMG Ubuntu (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/06/cinnamon-6-2-desktop-whats-new)
Opensuse Leap 15.6 - Opensuse (https://get.opensuse.org/leap/15.6/)
Open Standards - Health Care IT News (https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/linux-foundation-seeks-collaborators-new-interoperability-open-standard)
Open Source Summit - PR News Wire (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-linux-foundation-announces-schedule-for-open-source-summit-europe-2024-302172461.html)
In-Vehicle Linux Milestone - Businesswire (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240617966014/en/Red-Hat-Achieves-Major-Milestone-for-In-Vehicle-Linux-with-Functional-Safety-Assessment-and-Certification-for-Linux-Math-Library)
DISGOMOJI - Bleeping Computer (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-malware-is-controlled-through-emojis-sent-from-discord/)
Unity Catalog - Datanami (https://www.datanami.com/this-just-in/databricks-open-sources-unity-catalog-creating-the-industrys-only-universal-catalog-for-data-and-ai/)
OpenVLA - Venture Beat (https://venturebeat.com/ai/openvla-is-an-open-source-generalist-robotics-model/)
OpenSora - GitHub (https://github.com/hpcaitech/Open-Sora)
Stable Difusion 3 Medium - Stability.ai (https://stability.ai/news/stable-diffusion-3-medium)
23:20 NetBox Interview
Adam Kennedy - Senior Network Admin
Network documentation
NetBox
Single source of truth
DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management)
Holds tons of information
Documenting changes
Importing/Exporting information
Netbox and Ansible
Extra information
34:00 Best Practices
OS Ticket - Client notes
Markdown docs
Plain text
Explorable and discoverable
GNS3 (https://www.gns3.com/)
NetBox falls down with multiple clients
Menu Bar hides
What is standard documentation?
3 Choices
Plain text
Wiki system
Purpose built software
Good to re-evaluate from time to time
Cost of up ending the apple cart
48:00 Alerts
What is a good alert?
They need to be actionable
What the problem is
How it happened
Where do I go
Why dashboards are bad
Ticket back log
Human attention
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