I have a problem. When someone wants to do something interesting, I want to go full hog and dig in; I want to participate and help implement this idea. This can be from anything to dynamically scaled web servers (that’s still in flight) to my current problem: Minecraft hosting. I’ve done video game hosting in…
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Upgrading from FreeNAS 11.1 to 11.2
This weekend I had an interesting experience: A plugin failed for to update and left my jail in an odd state halting all downloads. I figured, “Let’s do the Jail thing, copy out the /var/db/ directory, rebuild/replace/resolve!” It wasn’t so simple. I was reminded of constant errors, related to python compiled SSL 0.9.8, that I…
Custom Magic Proxy Process
I’ve recently rediscovered my love for Magic: The Gathering and the price for the cards worth playing. There are some cards from the formative years of the game that are now worth more than their weight in gold, and for the privilege of even running these cards as a trial in my favorite decks, I’d…
Why have a NAS?
Network Attached Storage is a technology that allows for centralized access of data. This is traditionally used for things like configuration management, code repositories, and databases; doesn’t sound of much use to the home user, does it? Why not just use my computer to share out some files when I need it? Media, backups, drivers,…
My Infrastructure
To start this blog off, it would be helpful if there was a current-running-state. I currently have not finished my latest build and write this knowing that there is a long road ahead to even begin iterating on my home infrastructure. The purpose I have set forth in the below configuration is a Multimedia Management…
Hello World!
This is the first post of this blog, my mission statement is to catalog the adventures I take in the world of Information Technology, Incident Management, and the Product Lifecycle as it pertains to shit hitting the fan. Please join me in this journey to hone my skills and maybe educate people on a technology…