Archives
All the articles I've archived.
20265
July1
Doing some LoRA training on Gemma 4 31B on a DGX Spark
·3 min readJust a run of fun LoRA training trying to define my `voice` in writing.
June2
I built parody dating sites, Reddit locked my account, and then the robots refused to talk to me
·13 min readA 13-year Reddit user and paying Premium subscriber gets locked out mid-conversation, files 15+ appeals, and gets nothing back but silence while Reddit pockets $200M+ selling user content to AI companies.
I Built 3 Parody Dating Sites Instead of Actually Dating
·2 min readA tech guy with too much free time and a deeply unhealthy relationship with sarcasm builds the Scorched Earth Dating Universe. Gerald is fine. Kevin is not the problem. Debbie is still journaling about it.
April1
Kubernetes: The Perl of the Cloud Era
·3 min readA deep dive into the infinite, maddening ways to deploy a single container.
March1
To static the site
Updated:·1 min read
20236
August5
Kubernetes home-lab via SBCs
·6 min readKubernetes VMware vSphere infrastructure - Phase 2
·4 min readKubernetes VMware VSphere Infrastructure – Phase 3
·5 min readKubernetes VMware vSphere infrastructure - Phase 1
·4 min readI decided to dig into Kubernetes; again
·2 min read
February1
Import docker image into k3s
·2 min read
20222
November1
What about Mastodon?
·1 min read
20211
January1
Terraform managed AMIs with Packer
·3 min read
20198
June2
Photos of my car from BIR June 2019
·1 min readNovice Track Time at BIR
·4 min read
March4
My Model Y Reveal Trip - Epilogue
·2 min readMy Model Y Reveal Trip - page 3
·1 min readMy Model Y Reveal Trip - page 1
·2 min readMy Model Y Reveal Trip - page 2
·1 min read
January2
SSL Labs and Fortigate: Grade capped at B
·1 min readTesla Model 3: Why?
·4 min read
20186
November1
September1
Terraform and AWS instance auto-recovery
·1 min read
May2
Sound of Silence Tesla Rally 2018
·1 min readSumo Logic + Fortigate + Monitoring Children (update)
·1 min read
April1
20177
December1
November1
Will the Tesla semi actually save money?
·3 min read
October3
September1
Happy Birthday, Nikolina!
·1 min read
201611
December1
EV Notification Flyers
·1 min read
October1
RANCID (v3) vs Fortigate - the patch!
·1 min read
April2
March3
Installing Suricata on Ubuntu and FreeBSD
·3 min readSuricata IDS/IPS reporting
·1 min readUsing Ansible to update Linux distributions
·2 min read
201519
October2
Configure Syslog for VMware ESXi via vMA
·1 min readFortigate to Sumo Logic How-To
·2 min read
September1
August6
vSphere 6 nested in vCloud Director
·2 min readFortigate - how to turn on web classification
·2 min readSumo Logic + Fortigate + Web Classification
·3 min readSumo Logic - example json'ery
·5 min readSumo Logic + Fortigate + IPS Results
·1 min readSumo Logic + Fortigate = My Dashboard
·2 min read
July3
Sumo Logic? Why not ELK?
·2 min readSumo Logic + Fortigate + Application Usage
·2 min readSumo Logic + Log Volume Breakdown
·2 min read
June3
Sumo Logic + Email Dashboard
·3 min readSumo Logic + Fortigate + Bandwidth Hogs
·1 min readSumo Logic + Fortigate + Performance Graphs
·1 min read
201413
April2
Amazon Linux Vagrant Box Images
·1 min readAmazon Linux to Vagrant Box - part 3
·2 min read
March6
Install NetApp VAAI to VMware ESXi 5.5
·1 min readAmazon Linux to Vagrant Box – part 2
·3 min readAmazon Linux to Vagrant box
·1 min readAmazon Linux to Vagrant Box - Part 1
·2 min readHow To Patch vSphere 5 ESXi Without Update Manager
·1 min readDeleting domains in Zimbra
·1 min read
February4
HP ProtectTools Security Manager vs Windows 8.1
·1 min readThe hate that is SYSPRO and Windows 8.1
·1 min readToscaWidgets2
·1 min readHow to force Directory Synchronization for Office 365
·1 min read
201322
December1
November1
Twin Cities vBeers November 20th, 2013
·1 min read
October2
CrashPlanPRO_2010-03-08_Linux.tgz vs Linux-3.2.0
·1 min readnginx - conversion complete
·3 min read
September1
Set up a VMware vSwitch - the vMA way
·2 min read
August9
SYSPRO6 SRSPRTWN.int Error when printing
·1 min readGetting ckermit working with the Netapp console
·1 min readOfficial launch of business: mtau
·1 min readSetup SNMP: VMware ESXi via vMA
·2 min readUsing MarsEdit
·1 min readNew theme, cleaner, more grey!
·1 min readCreate local accounts for VMware ESXi via PowerCLI
·1 min readConfigure syslog for VMware ESXi via PowerCLI
·1 min readExchange 2013 multi-tenancy, step by step
·4 min read
June2
Continuing to play with Statamic
·1 min readBusy playing with Statamic
·1 min read
May2
Why do digital copy codes expire?
·1 min readWhere's the new Mac Pro?
·1 min read
April2
VXLAN and Juniper - the quick and dirty way
·1 min readGame of Thrones Season 3 premiere!
·1 min read
March1
Programming Children
·1 min read
201225
December2
First month: Atomic Data as DoNE
·2 min readThings are a changin'
·1 min read
July7
Mac OS X Mountain Lion still resizes Terminal.app
·1 min readDenial of service attacks suck
·2 min readTwin Cities vBeers July 7th, 2012
·1 min readUsing our local mirror for FreeBSD (7-9)
·1 min readUsing our local mirror server for Ubuntu 10.04
·2 min readUsing our local mirror server for Ubuntu 12.04
·2 min readUsing our local mirror server for Ubuntu 8.04
·2 min read
June2
Local mirror server upgrade
·2 min readPosted in my ipHouse blog - local mirror server upgrade
·1 min read
May2
How-To: Purge old Ubuntu kernels
·1 min readFreeBSD 8 -> 9 upgrade, manually
·1 min read
April3
How do our servers connect?
·1 min readTwin Cities vBeers May 12, 2012
·1 min readTwin Cities vBeers April 3, 2012 (updated)
·1 min read
March5
And the new storage is...
·4 min readBenchmarking storage results, part 2
·2 min readBenchmarking storage results, part 1
·2 min readStorage benchmarking hardware list
·3 min readSearching for storage: Tintri
·4 min read
February2
January2
Stop SOPA
·1 min readSearching for storage: Tegile
·5 min read
201118
November4
Oh sandbox, you need to grow
·1 min readBuilding a sandbox requires planning
·1 min readSun's Project Blackbox - where are you now?
·1 min readStorage Cluster; a year in review
·4 min read
October2
Siri, my first weekend with you
·1 min readMonitoring and measurement software, the search
·1 min read
September5
Mac OS X Lion resizes Terminal.app windows
·1 min readiOS 5 can't come soon enough!
·1 min readInstall of vCloud Director 1.5 fails to set up ESXi 4.1U1 hosts
·1 min readvCloud Director 1.5 cannot upload files error
·1 min readVMworld 2011 - what a busy week
·2 min read
August1
Slimy marketing tactics are insulting
·1 min read
July1
Mac Pro vs Newegg special
·2 min read
May1
Bond, 007 movies on Netflx
·1 min read
April2
vCloud Director Cluster got you down?
·3 min readOracle, why do I need X to install?
·1 min read
201023
December1
Newegg continues to spam
·1 min read
November3
Newegg sends spam, can not learn from previous mistakes
·1 min readDNS MX vs IPv4 & IPv6
·2 min readXfinity vs Hulu direct - what's up?
·1 min read
October1
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm...and?
·1 min read
August3
July1
iPhone 4 + FaceTime
·1 min read
June1
Storage, storage STORAGE!
·2 min read
May1
A storage cluster is born
·5 min read
April3
iPad first impressions
·1 min readRe-carpeting the data center - in review
·1 min readHOW-TO: Carpet your data center
·3 min read
March3
Linux Distributions vs PHP
·1 min readGoodbye VISI, it had been good
·1 min readMacHeist wins again
·1 min read
February2
Example cost: Virtual Private Cloud (updated)
·1 min readApache 1.3 - you were loved
·1 min read
200929
December1
How to re-blog?
·1 min read
November1
VMware releases vSphere 4.0 Update 1
·1 min read
October4
FCC approves Net Neutrality Rules
·2 min readWindows 7 creates blue screen for your heart
·1 min readbool Virtual_systems; Virtual_systems=1;
·2 min readNew Mac Pro 2009
·1 min read
September2
World of Warcraft continues homogenization
·1 min readExample cost: Virtual Private Cloud on VMware
·4 min read
June4
iPhone 3G S fails activation? Read on!
·1 min readApple & AT&T Fail Activiation 3rd year running
·1 min readiPhone OS 3.0 not for everyone, with a battery...
·1 min readVMware releases HCL for ESXi 4.0
·1 min read
May4
VMware vSphere takes me by storm
·1 min readVMware vSphere - 1 more day of waiting!
·1 min readI have been cheating on you
·1 min readLinux Sucks! - a presentation
·4 min read
April2
ipHouse releases VMware based server services
·3 min readVirtualization War II (VWII)
·1 min read
March2
When anti-spam companies ... spam
·2 min readYahoo adds publishing to WordPress Blogs
·1 min read
February5
The Omni Group releases much of their software for free
·1 min readVirtualization and you - general questions
·1 min readVirtualization and you - the business user
·5 min readPrepping for VMware virtualization for customers
·2 min readNew blog site is online
·1 min read
200823
December2
November1
Virtualization and the ISP (part 5.0)
·1 min read
October7
Free Software from Codeweavers!
·1 min readVirtualization and the ISP (part 4.1)
·1 min readVirtualization and the ISP (part 4)
·1 min readVirtualization and the ISP (part 3.2)
·1 min readVirtualization and the ISP (part 3.1)
·1 min readVirtualization and the ISP (part 3)
·2 min readVirtualization and the ISP (part 2)
·1 min read
September5
VMware ESXi is cool
·1 min readVirtualization and the ISP (part 1)
·3 min readiPhone blogging
·1 min readThreading and web based discussion systems
·3 min readFreeBSD 7 does feel faster!
·2 min read
August3
Comcast implements bandwidth cap, network still sucks
·5 min readSave a tree, don't print this email!
·2 min readWindows Clustering of SQL Server 2005
·2 min read
July3
Not much to say
·1 min readGreat customer service
·1 min readPostfix and antispam
·2 min read
May1
My friend is less lame than I about blogging
·1 min read
20074
August1
Why have a blog if you do not use it?
·1 min read
June1
Epic mounts are faster!
·1 min read
May2
WoW patch 2.1
·1 min readLong time no blog!
·1 min read
200626
November1
Postfix and antispam
·1 min read
October2
UseNet News!
·1 min readVMware - Virtualization For Most
·2 min read
August1
Stargate SG:1 cancelled!
·1 min read
July4
Added a book library
·1 min readI am testing Flock and MarsEdit
·1 min readColo vs Managed servers
·1 min readGreylisting and SPAM avoidance
·1 min read
June2
Virtualization and Mac OS X (part 2)
·1 min readWe Hate Tech is back
·1 min read
May1
Exchange - why all the fuss?
·2 min read
April10
VPNs - why so difficult?
·3 min readApple Matters website
·1 min readVirtualization and Mac OS X
·1 min readPeople fear Windows on Mac
·2 min readApple MacBook Pro and CounterStrike: Source
·1 min readApple releases Bootcamp
·2 min readDomain names and availability
·1 min readMacBook Pro better after update
·1 min readMacBook Pro Issues to be addressed!
·1 min readRandom music that isn't all random
·1 min read
March5
MacBook Pro Part 2
·2 min readBOINC and SETI@Home
·1 min readLocal Defcon Group
·1 min readReplace iPod Firmware?
·1 min readMacBook Pro Part 1
·3 min read