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

Review of a tiny inexpensive $26USD 1080p WiFi surveillance camera.

An overview of the current working state of my DIY home automation and security system.

An update on my IP camera and home security project, now branching out into home automation and machine learning as well.

My evaluation of some options for streaming and motion-activated recording of IP cameras.

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

This post is part of a series of older draft posts from a few months ago that I’m just getting around to publishing. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a build system that meets my requirements (see the last paragraph).

At work, we have a handful - currently a really …

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 …

I recently added some Cacti-based graphing to a number of Linux-based servers prior to rolling out a new service. When I was looking over the performance graphs of the initial testing, I noticed that memory usage on our rsyslog server was near 98%. Looking at top(1), I saw …

I guess it’s pretty strange that I just found out about it now, three years later, but there’s an article on TheInquirer.net about Citibank’s website not allowing Linux, that heavily quotes a blog post of mine about the issue. Cool.