It looks like everything has made it to Missouri intact and in working condition! Some quick lessons for moving equipment half way across the country: Bubble wrap is your friend. Use a ton of it on the exterior of the server, then wrap in furniture pads. Custom cable lengths are
A very non-technical post today. I'll be moving down to St. Louis, Missouri over the next few weeks and will probably not have the opportunity to do updates as I'll be spending most of that time packing. Wish me luck, and I'll be back by August 1st!
I have been super busy over the past week and unable to do my usual somewhat extensive updates. So I give you the first (of hopefully not many) Micro Updates! Cool Stuff vimoutliner: Makes outlining/list creating really easy on my local Ubuntu install. There's a ton of information out
I've been using the Zabbix Appliance to handle monitoring/graphing of my home lab's resources to much success, but after recently expanding my Puppet Enterprise setup I decided to try and manage Zabbix via puppet. Background At the time of this writing, the Zabbix appliance is an OpenSUSE 12.3
Time to install source control at home (mostly to organize my home lab's puppet manifests). I started with my typical Ubuntu 14.04 server install and followed the directions on Gitlab's docs. Unfortunately, when the time came to install postgresql, it failed. I found a work around that involved installing