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mostly old witterings about mostly obscure tech stuff.
blog posts
2024
Helix Tomorrow Theme
(July 08)
2021
Illumos Telegraf Plugins
(September 11)
OmniOS - Broken Puppet
(June 23)
ZFS Encrypted Workspace
(February 16)
Scripting FTP in 2021
(January 16)
2020
Miserable Old Duffer's Guide to Working With Clojure
(April 08)
Everything Let Me Down (Or, How I Messed Up a Simple Task)
(February 28)
2019
changing MariaDB's data directory
(November 09)
Moving to OmniOS 02: Zones
(October 15)
Moving to OmniOS 01: The Global Zone
(September 25)
Writing Metrics with the Wavefront SDK
(April 18)
zr, for your ZFS pleasure
(April 04)
Monitoring cron with DTrace
(February 14)
rbenv on Solaris 11
(February 01)
Porting Crystal to Solaris and SmartOS
(January 16)
2018
Making a pkgsrc server with Manta
(June 01)
Wavefront Lambdas
(April 28)
Wavefront Deltas - Let Me Count the Ways
(March 24)
2017
ELK Sucks Logs
(September 28)
How Wavefront Tamed a Wild Puppet
(October 01)
The World's Worst Interview Question
(September 28)
Terraforming SmartOS, from SmartOS
(August 28)
Writing a Wavefront Reporter for Puppet
(August 12)
Wavefront and Solaris 04: /proc
(March 03)
Joyent CNS
(February 18)
nginx | filebeat | Wavefront
(February 13)
2016
Managing Wavefront Source Tags from the CLI
(October 13)
ZFS Snapshot Fun
(October 03)
Wavefront Events from the CLI
(July 12)
ZFS Snapshotting for Users
(July 05)
Wavefront and Solaris 03: DTrace
(June 26)
Wavefront and Solaris 02: Collecting Metrics, or Adventures in Kstats
(April 19)
Wavefront and Solaris 01: The Proxy
(March 30)
DTracing a Ruby Application
(February 11)
DTracing Slow Puppet Runs
(February 06)
Building Ruby 2.3 for Solaris 11.3
(January 26)
2015
Failing to Upgrade Solaris 11.2
(November 25)
Config Management: Do it Yourself
(November 18)
Building Ruby 2.2 for SmartOS
(October 04)
Why I Hate DevOps
(May 05)
2014
Solaris, uPNP, Linn, and MiniDLNA
(October 22)
Properly Mocking Chefspec Search Results
(February 24)
Persisting madadm.conf
(January 16)
2012
DNS on OmniOS AWS Image (Learning about dhcpinfo)
(October 21)
Building Solaris 11 AI Server in a Dedicated Zone
(July 28)
ZFS - Why So Slow?
(July 23)
SQLite, Node, and foreign keys
(July 20)
Fixing mpxio Multipathing
(June 07)
Migrating LDOM Boot Disks Across SANs
(May 25)
Printing a diameter symbol with TexLive
(May 13)
Setting up networking on OmniOS
(May 10)
Solaris 11 zones part 1
(May 01)
ipadm (and IPMP on Solaris 11)
(April 30)
Resizing swap on Solaris 11
(April 08)
Case Study: Virtualizing an Existing Solaris ISP Environment
(March 05)
Setting Up A Simple iSCSI Target in Solaris 11
(January 31)
Getting to a T2000 ALOM over serial
(January 17)
2011
SSH as root on Solaris 11
(December 05)
DNS on Solaris 11
(November 22)
DTrace notes 03: the pid and profile providers
(October 08)
DTrace notes 02: the io and syscall providers
(October 18)
DTrace notes 01: the vminfo and sysinfo providers
(October 06)
ZFS Encrypted Workspace
(April 20)
Building a Router With a Solaris Zone
(April 06)
Using pkg(1)
(March 20)
2010
Solaris 11 Automated Installs
(November 18)
cron - invalid account
(October 28)
clearing LDOM config
(September 29)
Trimming wtmpx
(September 08)
svc.startd could not set context
(July 12)
PIDs and SMF services
(March 02)
2009
Solaris 10 branded zones in SXCE
(December 16)
Sun Cluster 3.1 on Solaris 9
(November 26)
Replacing a disk with UFS and ZFS filesystems
(November 24)
Logical Domains
(November 11)
Single User mode on Solaris x86
(November 09)
Nice fonts on Solaris
(October 27)
NVRAM disk aliases
(October 27)
Getting a file out of a FLAR
(September 22)
2008
A Minimal Solaris 8 Build Server
(August 08)
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Sending Wavefront Data from the CLI
A New Wavefront CLI
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