I’d been neglecting this blog for a good while because it seemed to mostly be a source of comment spam, which was a drain on my time to police.

Wordpress has been the source of too much spam for me. I’m close to shutting off comments and I’ve already effectively quit writing here.

I’ve been indexing some resources privately and it’s become apparent to me that it would be useful to be able to refer other people to the original sources that are informing me. This is by no means exhaustive, and I do intend to return to this en…

I’ve been suffering for many years, 10 at the very least, with untreated hearing loss. I do my best to compensate by reading lips, or mentally filling in the blanks in conversations based on context, but the lack of hearing precision does cause a …

Until late 2010, I’d been using pretty much entirely open source software on my personal desktop and severs. This mostly worked pretty well, except very specifically with regards to my photography work. At that point in my life, photography had tu…

I had to fiddle around with this a bit and thought it might be useful to others. I’m using a http://joyent.com http://smartos.org zone as a file server for my Macs at home, and http://netatalk.sourceforge.net is really the best way to share files …

I will be speaking Wednesday night at the http://www.meetup.com/Triangle-DevOps/ group’s October meeting, hosted by http://webassign.net. The topic is “Introduction to illumos”. I’m expecting this to be a gentle introduction to the illumos world f…

I’ve got a few OpenIndiana boxes kicking around at the house, and I got to thinking that maybe my rather modern HP Proliant N40L with mirrored Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB disks and 8GB of RAM wasn’t all that speedy.

Back in March, I accepted a position with Wireless Generation. I’m doing some great things that will help students to reach more of their full potential. I’m very proud of what I do, but I can’t exactly write about it.

It looks like the Russian government has taken drastic action to eliminate a big name in liberated email services. Tormail.net has had its domain name pulled by its Russian registrar, and they say the chances are slim of getting the domain name back.

I see many different approaches that organizations take to cloud computing, ranging from running an ESXi cluster in-house to running everything on Amazon EC2, and others still running a more modern cloud stack on in-house hardware.

Tighten up the tinfoil hats, folks; this is going to be that kind of day.

While hanging out in some of the regular channels for SmartOS help, I’ve noticed that some people may still be having a hard time finding where the community congregates. I know this is already documented in the http://wiki.smartos.org/, but the W…