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Brian Bilbrey May 13, 2013

Dan steps up

A big shout-out to Dan Seto, of Misc. Ramblings fame. He's one of the infamous Daynotes Gang, joining (being joined? forced into Internet servitude?) the group shortly after I did, back in the earliest days of the new millenium (or possibly at the end of the last, I don't have a precise record at hand). Dan stepped up to the plate and covered Daynotes.com's registration for the next couple of years, so we're good most of the way through 2015! Thanks, Dan! * * * I was amused to note that NetSol will let you spend nearly 3300$US online to…

Brian Bilbrey May 11, 2013

Finishing a cabinet; Ch-ch-ch-changes a'coming.

Finishing the corner cabinet I'm making progress, as you can see. This cabinet may be upstairs as early as Wednesday of the upcoming week. Depends if I can get enough coats of poly on the doors and shelves. Pictured above, I'm at the poly stage for the face and insides - the dark teal sides are already three coats and cured. After supper, I took those down, laid out the doors and shelves, and first-coated the backs. Tomorrow, a quick sanding and I'll get the second coat on. * * * While I am not going to have the liberty…

Brian Bilbrey May 5, 2013

LOPSA-East #FTW

I got back this morning at about 11:30 following a fantastic LOPSA-East conference. I entertained such subjects as Tom Limoncelli's Evil Genius 101, Kyle Fulton's Automation in the Cloud with Puppet, Shumon Huque's Using and Migrating to IPv6, and Matt Simmons's Intro to SSDs. The Friday night keynote was delivered by Marcus Ranum of varied and interesting fame - his talk was funny, accurate, and depressing as hell. Just sayin'. The New Brunswick Hyatt is venue for the conference, and it was excellent. The food was superb (in general, not just in the context of a tech conference), and the…

Brian Bilbrey April 8, 2013

Eeek! It's Monday!

The weekend was given over to spring cleaning, and moving bits of furniture about. I was in another world last night - a world of pain. So sorry to have given the mostly-regular Sunday post a miss. * * * Top Tech Tip - You should have on-premise Tier 1 timekeepers - NTP out in the world is a scary place (search on "ntp vulnerabilites" for more information). Used to be, you could either cobble something that worked out of an old bit of Garmin gear, or spent 2-3K$ on a "proper" rack-mounted GPS unit. It's not good to have…

Brian Bilbrey November 22, 2012

Moving right along

First, for US visitors, Happy Thanksgiving. A weird holiday, to be sure, but it's always good to be thankful for life, family, friends, and first world problems. * * * I'm posting from Linux again, for the first time in a long while. I'd been trying a variety of solutions for storage here, answers that didn't involve running a full-size system 24x7. I couldn't do it. You see, it isn't good enough to just back stuff up here at home. I'm not going to backup home data on a cloud somewhere on the Internet - our friendly government doesn't appear…