March 10, 2017 @20:00
Over the years I have had many different BlackBerry phones. I started with a 7100t, one of the first candybar-style BlackBerry devices and just finished up a several-year relationship with a Passport.
September 19, 2016 @16:00
I have actually been building the static content of the site from a python(1) script for a while, though until recently it ran from cron(8) and rebuilt all the pages every hour. This wasn't too bad since there were a few internal pages that also got rebuilt, including my graphing pages that are built from SNMP queries of various network gear.
September 06, 2016 @16:00
I am hoping this will be the first of three or four posts detailing some of the technical bits under the covers of the new website. In this particular post I'll talk mostly about the design decisions that went into the whole infrastructure.
June 18, 2015 @21:18
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I have lately started using MikroTik RouterBoards for various remote sites on my network. Mostly the RB951Ui-2HnD as they are inexpensive, powerful, and an all-in-one remote access solution. I typically only route prefixes for my network and networks I have direct VPN links to, but there are a few sites where I don't trust the local Internet provider and will route everything via the VPN.
January 12, 2015 @19:41
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So I found myself stumbling across /r/unixporn/ the other day and a fair number of people seem to use screenfetch to display information about their systems in the screenshots they post.
December 15, 2014 @16:08
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I found myself needing to make roughly 100 DNS records for a DHCP pool. In BIND I usually accomplish this with some fancy vi(1) work, but sadly this was for a Windows based lab at work.
December 10, 2014 @10:56
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In the previous post on this topic I talked about building my ADS-B receiver to feed FlightAware and FlightRadar24. I got decent results but was waiting for some final pieces to put the unit outdoors and attach the LNA and filter (some ethernet cables and an antenna in the end).
August 15, 2014 @15:25
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Being a student pilot I have been aware of the FAA's NextGen project which happens to include ADS-B. Most of what I have been poking around at has been the in-cockpit stuff, evaluating various "ADS-B in" (broadcasts TO airplanes in flight) products that provide things like FIS-B and TIS-B (weather and traffic, for non-pilot types). A few months ago I ran into a number of projects for making receivers that allow you to receive the "ADS-B out" traffic (broadcasts FROM airplanes in flight) and was interested. I then found out that FlightAware (my favorite flight tracking website) is interested in consuming the data streams from ADS-B receivers. So I built one.
September 18, 2013 @21:39
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So when most people think about how they are going to spend a birthday they probably think about cake, cocktails, dinner, maybe presents. I thought a reasonable way to celebrate another year in the books was to complete a pretty major milestone in my flying career.
August 16, 2013 @11:50
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It is hard to describe the experience of learning to fly to people who have not done it. It is equal parts elation and frustration as you try to assimilate all the procedures, regulations, and knowledge required to become a pilot. Instead of a ``learning curve'' it is periods of frustration followed by discovery and joy. It is an investment in brain real-estate and muscle memory as well as the more obvious time and money.
July 05, 2013 @13:28
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I provide BaaS (Backup as a Service) on a NetApp FAS2020 to a number of friends using a vFiler on the system that hosts my public virtual machines (such as the one that runs this particular website). This provides separation and allows me to delegate administration of the backup location to the users that actually consume this data. When it came time to monitor the vFiler though I found that check_nac (which I use to monitor my instance) does not have access to vFiler resources. It looks like this is a limitation of the SNMP agent so the solution was to use the wonderful NetApp Manageability API.
May 22, 2013 @20:49
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Nothing major to report, went down to the Rochester Air Center last Thursday and after buying a new plotter (I seem to have lost mine between taking the practice test to get the sign-off on Monday evening and Thursday afternoon...) took and passed the written exam. I scored a 92% (missing 5 questions).
May 03, 2013 @11:47
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Last night was a perfect night to fly. No clouds, clear, nice strong wind from the south to help us scoot home.
April 05, 2013 @09:36
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In typical Rochester weather news, this week was forecast to be crap but all of a sudden it ended up being quite nice. In fact it was nice enough that I was able to get my night orientation flight in the book.
April 03, 2013 @18:57
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Last weekend I finally had the opportunity to get out and fly my first dual cross country. For those who aren't versed in the bowels of the FAA's flight training requirements a 'cross country' is a flight in excess of 50 Nautical Miles from your 'home' airport. The dual means I had my instructor along as opposed to the 'solo' variety which is still coming up. We planed to fly KSDC SYR KRME then KRME GGT KSDC.