Distant rumblings from Eric

Very nice.

https://embed.itunes.apple.com/us/embedded-player/idsa.2115d430-8ca5-11e6-b213-558fe71a10a8

While I really was excited that Metallica was coming to Minneapolis I was certainly less impressed with the process to obtain reasonably priced tickets. No luck on the day before premature ticket discharge nor the actual day of sale. Ticketmaster’s site is just that bad but realistically probably spammed by bots sucking up the tickets at face value. Anyway, I’m over it and feel fortunate enough to have seen Metallica in their mid career.

Compare this price to what you’ll find the tickets going for now… crazy to think but again this has been 24 years ago – wow… I’m getting old 😛

I had thought about obtaining tickets from these other sites but the stubbornness in me refuses to support those sites in the hope that they get stuck with excess tickets and eventually something changes. It’s not the price at this point, just the principle. Fans are missing out on one of the better shows, it’s just sad… Perhaps Metallica can use their status in the industry to fight back against the bot behavior?, doubtful as they are making bank regardless and seem to fill seats consistently.

Side note: it was awesome of them to allow the live stream on Pandora. 

Give it up Oracle 

http://www.siliconbeat.com/2016/07/08/googles-9-billion-oracle-battle-takes-new-turn/

So… for the past I don’t know many months I’ve been messing around with Icinga2 and admit it looks nice compared to other monitoring solutions I’ve tried. As far as configuration.. well that is part is just as complex as others – though I admit I really need to RTFM before commenting more. For the time being I’ve been using a trial/error approach to just make things shut up when thresholds are hit 😉

So, check Icinga out if you haven’t https://www.icinga.org/

If you have any tips please leave a comment.

While I would love to go on a rant about Ticketbots I’ve held off after a few days to let things settle and have came to the conclusion that no price above face value of the ticket is worth paying to see.

Perhaps if no one interacts with the third party that sucked up all the tickets seats will go unfilled and give said band something to complain about like they once did about Napster.

So Stub Hub and the rest of you can suck it – ’nuff said.