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Sun 31 March 2024: I spy with my little eye... a Pi
Fri 29 March 2024: SWR, Return Loss, and Percent Power Reflected
Tue 19 September 2023: Disk Erase, 2023 Edition
Thu 13 July 2023: Further notes for running current Raspi-OS headless
Sat 01 July 2023: Remembrances of Dad
Wed 08 March 2023: Read and Unread message in maildir (dovecot)
Sat 29 October 2022: Quick and Dirty OpenVPN configuration on EdgeOS (and maybe VyOS?)
Fri 12 August 2022: second-systemd
Tue 08 March 2022: Digirig, Raspberry Pi, and Older Icoms (IC-703, IC-706MkIIg, IC-718)
Mon 07 March 2022: Raspberry Pi 4b as a Headless Ham Shack Computer
Tue 30 November 2021: How to wait for The Internet to be available under systemd
Tue 23 November 2021: Super 8 home movie scan and conversion
Thu 18 November 2021: How to look like a Git Hero
Tue 02 November 2021: The Cloud
Sat 23 October 2021: Bye bye Bolt... (and what's next)
Wed 20 October 2021: Creating folders for Dovecot Pigeonhole
Thu 07 October 2021: How to print all certs in a bundle with command line openssl(1)
Tue 05 October 2021: A few thoughts on yesterday's six hour Facebook outage
Sun 03 October 2021: Of livestock-vs-pets... and barn cats
Fri 23 July 2021: Headless Mac Mini M1 boot behavior
Wed 16 June 2021: Pi on Pi - using ESXi Fling on a Raspberry Pi 4b/8GB to virtualize Raspberry Pi OS (nee Raspbian)
Tue 25 May 2021: How to hard reset a Ruckus R700 (or probably any Ruckus AP for that matter)
Fri 16 April 2021: New multimeter
Thu 15 April 2021: Hello Mr. Heater, my name is Enthalpy
Fri 15 January 2021: macOS Big Sur UI changes - hot take
Thu 14 January 2021: How big is a /64 - M&Ms in the Great Lakes
Mon 14 December 2020: nginx and certbot but without a working plugin
Mon 30 November 2020: Monday Morning Quarterbacking the AWS outage last Wednesday
Sun 29 November 2020: Circuit Sizing, Receptacles, Loads, and Time
Sat 14 November 2020: Farmertec Chain Saw Parts - 3/5 stars
Thu 12 November 2020: Partial redemption for Electrify America - Transparently Too Expensive
Wed 11 November 2020: Tesla Model Y - RS Fit Update
Mon 12 October 2020: No, you aren't using "Yubikey" for 2FA, please be more specific
Sun 06 September 2020: Unix $5$ and $6$ hashes from the command line
Mon 31 August 2020: Modern Car Party Trick (DMM and ATC/ATM fuse block)
Mon 24 August 2020: Don't use Signal if you value privacy
Sat 15 August 2020: The Spoon Trick (sheet metal forming in the home)
Fri 14 August 2020: If you use Ansible and you use Emacs...
Sat 01 August 2020: Ethanol-Free Gasoline in VA
Fri 10 July 2020: Passing the CDL Pre-Trip Test in Virginia
Thu 09 July 2020: Farewell to Jekyll
Wed 06 May 2020: How I signed up for a FiOS negative discount of $10/month
Fri 27 March 2020: Travelogue - OpenSSH 8.2 Yubikey U2F/FIDO2 Support
Thu 26 March 2020: Password Recovery and Upgrading Software on a Juniper EX switch
Sun 01 March 2020: Electrify America - the most profitable mea culpa ever
Thu 20 February 2020: Lets Encrypt, DNS-01, and a side of Certificate Transparency
Tue 18 February 2020: Swapping out locks on a GSA security container
Wed 12 February 2020: Rebuilding the Ansible jumphost under fire
Sat 01 February 2020: Good-enough security and Polycom phone network configuration notes
Thu 12 December 2019: Things I won't do again
Mon 23 September 2019: systemd - dissatisfaction guaranteed
Fri 06 September 2019: running VyOS from USB
Tue 20 August 2019: techmikeny knows how to box a server
Mon 19 August 2019: In praise of PC-11
Thu 08 August 2019: Good tools, less money
Thu 08 August 2019: Hey Dell, where did you hide the boot order in your BIOS?
Wed 07 August 2019: Tractor Feature Shopping List
Tue 06 August 2019: Keeping the portable EVSE from walking away
Sun 30 June 2019: A little disappointment in the car charger metering department
Thu 27 June 2019: Dedicated Power Service for a small fleet of electric car chargers
Wed 13 March 2019: An Experiment in Datacenter Power Use Reduction
Mon 04 March 2019: dnssec-keygen is partially deprecated for tsig generation
Sun 03 March 2019: Certbot is pets, not cattle
Mon 28 January 2019: Overwriting the partition table on a Mac
Sun 27 January 2019: 4kn vs 512e drives
Sat 05 January 2019: Host Attached Storage and Home-Colo Server Notes 2019q1 Edition
Fri 04 January 2019: JunOS EX port mirroring
Thu 03 January 2019: Community Edition Blues
Wed 02 January 2019: If your espresso machine was a used car, what would it be?
Mon 10 December 2018: Lessons learned from appliance delivery guys
Tue 04 December 2018: Another Cheetah Mount
Fri 30 November 2018: Disk prices
Sat 24 November 2018: Cameras on the Intercounty Connector (ICC) in MD
Fri 23 November 2018: Stop speccing Cat6 cable
Tue 13 November 2018: ZFS reading list
Mon 12 November 2018: Cablemodem Readings
Thu 01 November 2018: Bye bye Asterisk
Fri 12 October 2018: exporting homebrew (configuration, not beverages)
Tue 02 October 2018: Bill's BOM - a Large Home Network Upgrade
Sun 30 September 2018: Raspberry Pi vs. CloudKey
Fri 28 September 2018: Packet capture while looking for a chatty host
Tue 25 September 2018: Using trigonometry to calculate conduit bending
Fri 15 June 2018: Insecticide Blues
Tue 12 June 2018: Kahlua recipe
Mon 11 June 2018: BFT Heater Mod
Mon 04 June 2018: Camping trip report -- lag screws and pop-ups
Sun 03 June 2018: Apple, iOS, and the Principle of Least Astonishment
Sat 07 April 2018: Non-Gravity Drain for Plumbed-In Espresso Machine
Wed 04 April 2018: easyrsa3 redux - crl expiry
Sun 11 March 2018: New Dominion Blue Book is out...
Sun 11 March 2018: zfs send with netcat revsited
Wed 14 February 2018: I actually did a bad thing...
Sun 11 February 2018: codicil to the systemd post
Fri 09 February 2018: I almost did a bad thing...
Wed 07 February 2018: I bought high quality air fittings for my air hoses
Tue 06 February 2018: IPv6 ICMP is not ICMP
Mon 05 February 2018: Goodbye hpacucli, hello ssacli
Wed 01 November 2017: ssh forwarding in Ansible-land
Tue 24 October 2017: SI prefixes (just because you can, doesn't mean you should)
Fri 20 October 2017: Do-over from scratch in Splunk Universal Forwarder
Thu 05 October 2017: SmartOS LX brand zone and native ipfilter
Wed 13 September 2017: What Kind Of Wheels Does My Trailer Take?
Mon 11 September 2017: ssh(1) and Geriatric iLO2 revisited, and a diversion to iLO3
Fri 08 September 2017: Two thumbs up to Cheetah Mounts
Thu 07 September 2017: Socks proxy on Firefox on Mac (without touching system settings)
Wed 06 September 2017: Killing video autoplay on Safari/Mac
Thu 17 August 2017: autossh, systemd, and a Raspberry Pi
Wed 09 August 2017: Open Source voting machines
Tue 08 August 2017: Hey Whirlpool...
Wed 26 July 2017: ssh(1) and Geriatric iLO2
Sun 23 July 2017: Short Linux Rant, Summer 2017
Thu 20 July 2017: Monitoring HP servers
Wed 19 July 2017: Picoreview of the Amazon Fire HD8 tablet
Fri 19 May 2017: LDAP/AD integration on the Mac
Tue 09 May 2017: Adventures with Logstash Grok
Mon 08 May 2017: Juniper EX Power Supply Sound Levels
Tue 18 April 2017: A Brief Conversation with a Taxi Driver in a Leaf
Sun 16 April 2017: Simple rule for DHCP Relay in Juniper PROTECT-RE filter
Wed 22 March 2017: World's Tiniest Fiber Build
Wed 08 March 2017: Making a Ubuntu Thumb Drive on a Mac
Wed 01 March 2017: Cloud Reliability Expectations
Sat 18 February 2017: Some Improvements to my NGiNX configuration
Thu 02 February 2017: New Naming Convention for SSIDs
Tue 24 January 2017: Conduit to the Garage
Tue 24 January 2017: New Old Stock from Comcast
Fri 13 January 2017: Solaris on Intel physical disk device
Tue 10 January 2017: Better Nozzle for a Grease Gun
Tue 13 December 2016: Espresso Machine Shopping List
Thu 08 December 2016: Funky X.509 certificate chain
Fri 02 December 2016: Repairing a Cooler
Thu 01 December 2016: Migrating from easyrsa2 to easyrsa3
Tue 22 November 2016: Completely erasing the disk on a MacBook Pro
Fri 11 November 2016: Ethical constraints in writing HOWTOs
Fri 11 November 2016: Verizon FiOS DHCP notes
Wed 02 November 2016: Pay Phones at IAD
Tue 01 November 2016: Preventing drive-bys with client certs
Mon 31 October 2016: Issue X.509 certificates from a local CA with easyrsa3
Sun 30 October 2016: Added a favicon
Sat 29 October 2016: New capacitors in my Kilpsch Heresys
Thu 27 October 2016: DNSSEC Ceremony 27
Thu 27 October 2016: Time Warner is not Time Warner Cable
Mon 17 October 2016: Gaige got the DL360g6 iLO2 talking to the QFX-5100
Wed 21 September 2016: Sometimes Disk I/O isn't the long pole in the tent (a good fs helps)
Mon 19 September 2016: HandbrakeCLI maximum threads
Tue 13 September 2016: Further Notes on Configuring MySQL in Ansible
Mon 12 September 2016: Traveling with Guns
Sun 11 September 2016: Choosing an Electric Car Charger
Mon 05 September 2016: Testing the LetsEncrypt IPv6-ready claims
Mon 22 August 2016: Mikrotik and IPv6 on cable (tested with legacy-TWC and Comcast)
Sun 21 August 2016: Graylog2 is off the table...
Tue 16 August 2016: FiOS technology overview and QAM Video scan results
Sat 13 August 2016: Two Years and 24000 miles in a Nissan Leaf
Tue 09 August 2016: Useful Mikrotik Incantations
Sat 30 July 2016: Next Steps with LetsEncrypt
Tue 05 July 2016: Reflashing an LSI disk controller
Fri 17 June 2016: Changing MySQL's root password in Ansible
Thu 16 June 2016: Ending a line with a backslash in Ansible YAML
Sun 12 June 2016: Identifying hydraulic connectors
Sun 08 May 2016: Less automation with Ansible
Tue 19 April 2016: VPN on VyOS - L2TP/IPSEC
Tue 19 April 2016: VPN on VyOS - OpenVPN
Sun 03 April 2016: Buying in bulk
Mon 28 March 2016: HP DL360G6 with amnesia
Mon 21 March 2016: more notes on Letsencrypt
Fri 18 March 2016: Let's Encrypt revisited
Sun 13 March 2016: Home Expo notes - garage doors
Sun 13 March 2016: Please include the sheet music
Fri 04 March 2016: ISO8601 date quickly from the CLI
Fri 04 March 2016: Sniffing on SmartOS
Thu 03 March 2016: "Drupal is fired"
Wed 03 February 2016: burning a DVD or CD in MacOS 10.11 El Capitan
Wed 27 January 2016: snow clearing and getting the tractor unstuck
Thu 21 January 2016: It's not easy being green
Fri 08 January 2016: the magic mac rsync flag
Thu 07 January 2016: Last night's fight with Ansible
Sun 29 November 2015: Revisiting compression software
Fri 31 July 2015: that icon doesn't mean what I thought it means
Tue 21 July 2015: active/active
Mon 20 July 2015: reasonably secure passwords on tap
Sun 19 July 2015: instructions on ssh keys and keys-only login
Sun 19 July 2015: rediscovering a fundamental truth of VPN hardware
Sun 21 June 2015: apparently I have better sources for weather information
Thu 18 June 2015: I'm in love with a stripper
Tue 16 June 2015: unhappy ZFS zpool
Wed 10 June 2015: Adventures in Modern Rokoding
Wed 10 June 2015: SSLv3 on UBNT APs
Mon 08 June 2015: shear pins
Fri 17 April 2015: Rancilio Silvia - Four Year Review
Thu 02 April 2015: Linux grumble OTD
Fri 20 February 2015: batteries sure don't like the cold
Mon 09 February 2015: tractor tutorials
Sun 08 February 2015: Elfa top track rail screws
Sat 07 February 2015: Splicing a big pile of PDFs on a Mac
Wed 04 February 2015: Dear Apple...
Mon 02 February 2015: "Autocorrupt knows..."
Mon 02 February 2015: POE vs POE
Wed 07 January 2015: Shame on me for using a DNSBL run by clueless children
Fri 02 January 2015: an embarrassment of riches of tiny cheap sbcs
Sun 28 December 2014: ditching dnsmasq in ubuntu
Sat 20 December 2014: How'd I figure out that dns-servers bit in the last article?
Sat 20 December 2014: Two thumbs down for ∑dimax's AC450 USB adapter for Mac
Fri 12 December 2014: This kind of stunt is why I dislike Linux
Thu 04 December 2014: No Schedule EV for me
Thu 04 December 2014: Recursive DNS benchmark statistics on tiny ARM boards
Tue 02 December 2014: bragging rights
Sun 16 November 2014: Exhaust allergy
Thu 13 November 2014: MySQL password reset
Fri 07 November 2014: ip6.arpa shortcut
Thu 06 November 2014: Genning up TSIG keys for DNS UPDATE messages
Thu 06 November 2014: updating zones with TSIG, part 2...
Sat 01 November 2014: Namespace overload of the day
Fri 31 October 2014: Today's lectionary
Wed 29 October 2014: netcat and zfs send
Mon 20 October 2014: tcpdump 802.1q errata
Thu 16 October 2014: Hello OpenSSL folks...
Sun 24 August 2014: M*A*S*H as a metaphor for the Internet Spottiness of August 12th
Tue 19 August 2014: Learned something new about BGP yesterday
Sun 10 August 2014: Steel cut oats in rice maker
Sun 03 August 2014: The Shack is about to collapse
Mon 21 July 2014: valve stem saga
Fri 18 July 2014: a burst of activity
Tue 08 July 2014: new access point for the house
Fri 27 June 2014: Shocking...
Wed 25 June 2014: I try to like Linux, I really do (and the OS version rant)
Thu 22 May 2014: Helium is expensive
Tue 20 May 2014: because I didn't want green terminal text in my AIM session...
Thu 08 May 2014: Example Networks and Domain Names for Documentation
Thu 08 May 2014: The Propane Game
Tue 06 May 2014: Left-hand threads
Tue 06 May 2014: Password Escrow
Tue 29 April 2014: Overstuffed Packet Capture, or NICs That Are Too Smart By Half
Mon 28 April 2014: Carping about CARP
Tue 01 April 2014: 1000baseTrivia
Thu 20 March 2014: View from my cube
Wed 19 March 2014: Adding a ZFS filesystem on loopback mount to a SmartMachine
Tue 18 March 2014: Cisco 1231 Access Point Notes
Thu 13 March 2014: fail2ban lives up to its name
Wed 26 February 2014: When was the last time you looked at your SSL stance?
Tue 25 February 2014: A conversation about datacenter power
Tue 25 February 2014: FIOS Band Sweep (Washington DC/NoVA)
Sat 22 February 2014: iPhone Repair in Western NoVA (props to WiGoClinic in South Riding)
Tue 18 February 2014: Using your own router with FIOS
Wed 12 February 2014: Software installation notes for the Mac
Fri 07 February 2014: On the occasion of a Sweat Equity Macbook Pro Upgrade
Thu 23 January 2014: Airing of Grievances X.509 web certificate edition
Fri 17 January 2014: SmartOS vs. SmartMachine
Fri 17 January 2014: The T-Mobile / iPad 2 Saga
Fri 17 January 2014: Time Machine on SmartOS
Wed 08 January 2014: SmartOS Overview
Sat 04 January 2014: First!
Sat 04 January 2014: Musings on North American / International power
Sat 04 January 2014: Useful places to buy stuff...
Sat 04 January 2014: Why I'm here (Avi made me do it)