Computers ⁽¹²⁸⁾

Brian Bilbrey July 10, 2012

Fresh Pi, Have a Taste

Here's a shot of the screen: The screen is running from my newest linux-based computational device, which you can see at the lower left of the picture above. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it, yet, but at $35 plus shipping, I'm sure I can find a cost-appropriate use... I got in on one of the first few batches manufactured, placing my order last February, I think. It arrived today, a few weeks ahead of original schedule. They're supposed to be opening up ordering again in a few days (whenever "mid-July" is, in marketing-speak), at this Newark/Element14…

Brian Bilbrey May 13, 2012

Another Sunday

My day started in New Jersey. Seriously. I spent Thursday evening through this morning in New Brunswick, New Jersey attending PICC'12. What a great conference. Sponsored by LOPSA, and hosted by the New Jersey chapter of LOPSA, it was two superb days of new friends, meeting in meatspace folks I only knew electronically, good food, and some awesome technical training classes. My major focus this time around was on configuration management, security, and IPv6. I can't recommend this conference highly enough. Only a three hour drive for me, it's also right close to the train and near to Newark airport.

Brian Bilbrey April 27, 2012

Eventful

The week, that is. Eventful. First, I'm past halfway now, and on the long slide down into the twilight time. Yep, I turned 51 on Tuesday. It was a fun day: I worked my normal 9 hours, did some light VMware reading in the evening, and retired at my normal time of the evening. Do I know how to live it up, or what? Regarding the light VMware reading, I've been boning up in preparation for a VCP vSphere 5 certification exam, which I took this afternoon. Event the second - I did not pass that exam. Sigh, I suck.

Brian Bilbrey December 29, 2011

To Be Continued

And here I am. So, Node.js. First, the lawyer crap: Node.js is a trademark of Joyent. I guess I have to say that, but seriously? Probably, just to protect the project from ne'er-do-wells out here on teh 'tubes. It's a sanely licensed project that provides good attribution to the bundled dependencies. I expect nothing less than good open source citizenship from the smart folks at Joyent. Anyway, Node.js is a hunk of code and libraries that runs on the server-side of the HTML/XHTML transactional pipeline, and allows mind-bendingly simple code to do neat things. Is it secure? I dunno. Is…

Brian Bilbrey December 28, 2011

Linux remodel, OpenIndiana build 151a, Node.js, and the DTrace Book

Lots of computing updates going on. It all started last week ... * * * It was the Thursday before Christmas, or Wednesday perhaps, the details blur just a bit. I've not been using the Linux box formerly known as Slartibartfast as a desktop machine for quite a while now. My old MacBook Pro got refurbished with a small-ish SSD drive, and that's the primary desktop system these days. It sits in a custom upright support that I created for the purpose a couple of years ago, and finally put to use Darlion — the OS X Lion -enabled former…