Bootstrapping and rooting are two concepts often associated with computing, but not the documentation of computing environments. Sometimes concepts such as these are called design patterns and I would like to try and introduce a new pattern called Documentation Bootstrapping. I think this is a critical pattern for the creation of any successful and useful documentation.
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Background Last year was the first time that I made it to the Ohio Linux Fest and it was a blast. I met a bunch of the volunteers from the Fedora project, learned about the One Laptop Per Child projects success, and was finally pushed over the edge to write some open source software. This
Abstract This presentation was created for the PyOhio 2010 conference. It gives an overview of Artificial Ignorance, command line graphing, and word counts with petit. It also gives a quick examples of weekly and monthly reporting when dealing with a syslog server which records switch, router, firewall, and server logs. Presentation