At work, we have a Netgear ReadyNAS 1100. It’s a 4TB NAS appliance, a cute little 1U half-depth Linux box with 4 SATA disks, a RAID controller, and some firmware to do a whole bunch of fancy stuff (mainly geared towards consumers and very small shops - all configuration is …

I have a small web-based tool for allowing members of an organization to register their wireless MAC addresses, and then automatically adding them to the MAC ACL on Ubiquiti AirOSv2 APs. It’s a pretty quick hack, along with a simple and ugly web-based tool, but it gets the job …

At work, I’m starting to implement OCS Inventory NG on our Linux boxes to keep track of hardware. Part of the plan is also that we have a MediaWiki installation for internal documentation, and articles for every host (named as the hostname). I’m going to pull data from …

My Droid is still running 2.0.1 rooted, with SPS Recovery, just as it was the week the 2.0.1 update was pushed out OTA - I’d already rooted it, disabled OTA updates, and performed a simple procedure to update and keep root.

My one complaint is that …

So in the first bit of good news lately, after four years as a part-timer, this Monday I start my full-time position at Rutgers as a Linux SysAdmin. Not really anything different - same office, same work, just another day a week and a pay bump (plus benefits and all that …

At work we have a Cyclades ACS16 console server (running Cyclades-ACS16-Linux V_3.2.0 (Jan/04/08)). While the docs claim all sorts of LDAP features, there’s nothing (either in the web GUI or the CLI configuration tool) to setup LDAP with TLS or required group membership …

Gizmodo - The Real Reason the Droid’s Camera Fixed Itself.

Well, it’s definitely good news to know that the problem with the camera on my beautiful new Droid is only a software issue. However it’s not too reassuring to know that Google (or could it have been Motorola …

I don’t like writing posts with a low useful content quotient, but here goes.

After having only one new (i.e. not used) phone in eight years - and the one new one was a Treo 700p, obsolete when I bought it - I decided to bite the bullet. I bought …

I spent part of the day installing a Netgear ReadyNAS 1100 for backup storage. It’s a cute little 1U storage appliance with 4 SATA disk bays, two Gig copper ports and about every sort of hokey service you could possibly want in something that’s billed as a small …

I have a Cisco WS-G4912 (12-port Gigabit aggregation switch) that I’m using to bring my network up to Gig-E. It’s about all that I could afford, and works fine. Most of my older servers are running 1000BASE-SX multimode fiber, but I decided to use copper GBICs …