Equipment
First Home Rack I purchased a smoked glass cabinet with exhaust fans and a slide out keyboard/monitor tray. I filled it primarily with Sun Solaris machines but also had an 8mm tape drive for backups, a 6 drive SCSI raid, and a UPS. Each machine served a dedicated function – mail server, portal server, web […]
Map Of Infrastructure
What is it?! I wrote this application in Perl and it has evolved from job to job over the years. It began life as a hardware inventory, and later also included virtual servers. Eventually this branched out into including user information, as we needed that for the support team, to assign ownership of equipment to, […]
Monitoring
Monitoring Software Monitoring is a huge portion of my job and I’m perpetually seeking the utopian monitoring system. What makes for a perfect monitoring system you ask? I’m glad you asked! Offhand I would describe it as such: Holistic — watches every conceivable metric, preferably from multiple vantage points Corollary — distills data to provide […]
Tech Stuff
A collection of random tech bits from my years as a systems administrator and self proclaimed nerd.
Printer Filament Materials
Some notes on 3d printer filaments
Treasure Hunt
Our kids love these! We often do them at Easter, sometimes at birthdays or just for fun
The Bag Game
A very challenging, fun, easy to play game, generally good for some laughs
Home Climbing Wall
There’s nothing like being able to drop the groceries and pull a Spiderman when walking through your garage…
Photography
If only the desire to be a great at something was enough to magically make it happen!