A collection of random tech bits from my years as a systems administrator and self proclaimed nerd.
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 s...
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...
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 -- wa...
RoomFinder
Concept
RoomFinder is an application I built on top of Google Maps, allowing users to search for and display internal building resources such as restrooms, offices, and individual seating such as cubicles. I built it because I worked for a company...
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