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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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