The trouble I went through installing Arch Linux on a Precision 5530 (very similar to XPS 15 9570) and how it was solved.

Quick overview of the Partaker I5 network appliance that I bought for my new home router.

How to install VyOS 1.1.7 on an Alix 2c1 or similar i386 single board computer

As part of the transition from a contractor to a full-time employee of Cox Media Group Digital & Strategy (check out our github), I’ve been issued a Mid-2010 (6,2) 15” MacBook Pro laptop, to replace my current Early-2008 (3,1) MacPro desktop. The desktop is currently running Fedora 17 …

I often find myself logging in to the web UI of F5 BigIp load balancers and tracing down a VIP address to the servers that actually back it. This is an arduous, repetitive task of tracing from the VIP list to the VIP details page to find the default pool …

I recently had to setup Fedora 16 to test something on a SuperMicro 6015T-TV 1U “dual” server. This is a 1U enclosure with two separate servers in it - based on the SuperMicro X7DBT motherboards - each with an AOC-SIMSO+ IPMI and KVM-over-IP management card. Every time I …

Yesterday I was asked to help out a bit debugging issues with a site that sits behind a F5 BIG-IP load balancer (LB). It’s a pretty simple site, load balanced between two web servers. The developers were complaining about intermittent page load issues, so I immediately considered a …

I just installed Fedora 16 on an older IBM ThinkPad T42 laptop. Unfortunately, the two mouse buttons below the UltraNav touchpad just won’t work at all. Before opening up the case and fiddling around, I decided to try a software solution. Even after fairly exhaustive research, I couldn’t …

Update March 2017: I have an updated version of this procedure for VyOS, the open source community fork of Vyatta, available in a new post: VyOS on Alix 2C1 Single Board Computer.

With the impending move to an apartment in Georgia and the migration of my rack full of servers …

First off, I’ve moved this blog from a server in my basement to Linode virtual hosting, in preparation for my move from New Jersey to an apartment in Georgia. This will mark the first time since 2001 (when I was 14) that I didn’t have at least a …