The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey August 17, 2014

Push Through

I'm tired. There's been a fair bit of unscheduled work over the last few days, leading to sleepus interruptus. But I got done what must be done, and a fair bit else besides. The big project of the weekend was a bit of reconstruction on the front step, which has been sinking away pretty much since the house was built. For some reason, they didn't rebar the step into the concrete porch. What I need to do is break that old step out, drill some holes into the porch and epoxy in some rebar, then pour a new step. But…

Brian Bilbrey August 10, 2014

Summer?

We're ten days into August, the last (usually) properly hot and humid month of the year ... and we've only made it up out of the 80's into the low 90's ONE day this month. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Our electric bills are lower, the house is more comfortable, etc. But this definitely bodes, eh? If the ice comes in September, I'm going to be upset. * * * In other news, like most non-lazy people, my time is defined by the work I do. Yesterday: patching an ESXi host, and mowing the lawns. The latter was a big…

Brian Bilbrey August 4, 2014

What I'm Reading - The Setup

Tech note - when you see a Twitter handle here, it's because I follow that person/entity there. For Twitter curation, I tend to lean towards the tech/tech security sector, with a light mixture of non-tech people added in. What I'm Reading - The Setup Recently, @deirdres (Deirdré Straughan) brought to my attention a brief interview with @brendangregg (Brendan Gregg) that was running on The Setup (http://usesthis.com/). Huh? The Setup is a collection of nerdy interviews asking people from all walks of life what they use to get the job done. Ah, yeah. Now, you see, that's something that I can…

Brian Bilbrey August 3, 2014

Certifiable

OOOooo ... err. Certified. That's whut I am. The week of death march revising on RHEL7, followed by two certification exams on Friday, it is over. And most interestingly, I passed both exams, and now have my RHCE. Coming out of the building after 5 on Friday afternoon, I was sure I'd passed EX200 (the RHCSA exam), but frankly wasn't feeling too warm and fuzzy about EX300 (the RHCE). So I was pleased as punch to learn that I had in fact passed both, and by comfortable margins. Better yet, I learned a hell of a lot about the tools…

Brian Bilbrey July 28, 2014

A billion, billion comment spam

Well, that might be an exaggeration. It was more like a few hundred comment spam. Fortunately they were all so marked, making it easy to click--delete. * * * Monday? Monday?!? So sorry to have missed y'all, yesterday. I've been preparing for this week's RH300 course, and stayed pretty focused on that goal. We're covering 14 days of regular Red Hat coursework in four days of grueling review, followed by the RHCSA and RHCE exams on Friday. And the exams are ... challenging. I'm really good with the bits I use. And I can puzzle out the bits I don't…