http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/12/10/red-hat-begins-devops-journey/.

So you might think that evoking the word “politics” might mean there’s going to be a rant coming. There will be nothing of the sort. Politics is not necessarily a belligerent act in the corporate world, though it’s often perceived that way. And wh…

We were planning on having Gene Kim come out tonight to give a talk to a packed room in Durham. Unfortunately, Gene has fallen ill and we’re off to “Plan B”. I’m putting together some slides now to deliver a DevOps 101 talk. Mark Mzyk, Nathan Wall…

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.