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Brian Bilbrey February 9, 2016

9 Feb 2016

Disappointing. Snow fell for about 18 hours, leaving a total accumulation of ... nothing. A smattering on the grass, a damp road surface. It was just too darn warm coming into this event - the storm never had a chance. It didn't even frighten the schools in my county into closing - and they frighten real easy! * * * A challenging day at work, with Internet issues external to our sphere of control, but massively annoying, taking center stage. That, plus a failed piece of hardware, made the first half of my day disappear. I'll get caught up, somehow…

Brian Bilbrey December 21, 2015

21 Dec 2015

A day late, and a vacation dollar short. Yep, vacation. I'm "off work" for the next two weeks, which means that I only keep an eye on email, and respond if SMS messages flow my way. But for the purposes of day-to-day operations, I'm offline. Yay! * * * In other good news, no vomiting in more than a week, so I've got that going for me. * * * Please note that policy requires the new disclaimer in the footer of this site. So noted. * * * The weekend flew by with assorted home-maintenance chores. They were mostly…

Brian Bilbrey November 29, 2015

2015 Nov 29

LISA 15 Report The LISA 2015 conference was held this year at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park, off Connecticut Avenue in north east DC. It's 15 miles from home, but the best driving time I had was Wednesday (Veteran's Day) morning, which took half an hour, and the worst was a bit over 1.5 hours, coming home in weeknight traffic, in the rain. It's a nice venue, though I've never stayed there, only attended events. Saturday night was badge pickup and opening reception. I attended that mostly to do a handoff of the give-away items for the LOPSA general business…

Brian Bilbrey November 8, 2015

LISA15

The LISA 15 conference is in full swing. I was up at 0600, and on the road at 0630. People to see and things to do before two half-day tutorials today: Go for SysAdmins, and Software Testing for Sysadmin Programs. Both were interesting and potentially useful and applicable to my work. Tomorrow, I'm doing the System Internals course, but if there is too much overlap with Ted Ts'o's course from last year, then I'll bail at midday and attend the Systemd tutorial in the afternoon. Tuesday I've got a couple more tutorials on tap, followed by three days of conference…

Brian Bilbrey October 6, 2015

Kindle, revived?

I have a 2012 Kindle touch. It's been my bedside reader, light and easy on the eyes as I wind down from the day. I think it's a better late-night device for me than a backlit screen device would be. However, week or so ago, I noticed that my kindle had stopped behaving. It wouldn't turn on. Then it would, just to display a dialog box saying something about the application crashing or stopped or somewhat. I figured it was down on charge, so the next morning I put it on the charger and headed to work. That evening, with…