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 …

Note 2014-12-16: I’m leaving this here for historical reasons, and since some older OS versions still need properly-written init scripts. Since starting to use Arch Linux on my laptop, I’ve become a convert to the systemd world. I know this is a hot topic and has sparked a …

Since I started my last job, I’ve been using Nagstamon on my workstation; it’s a really handy little system tray application that monitors a Nagios/Icinga instance and shows status updates/summary in a handy fashion, including flashing and (optionally) a sound alert when something changes. Unfortunately, there …

The bulk of this post was written way back in April 2012. If you’re just coming here, and looking to setup oVirt, you should probably skip down to the postscript for an update, and ignore most of the content here (as it’s applicable to an older oVirt version …

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 …