I can't point to a particular reason but for a long time I had been averse to Solarwinds. I'm not sure if it was that I considered them expensive for what they did, difficult to install or some other obscure reason. Regardless, I've been…
I got an interesting comment on a year old post of mine regarding CAPWAP. Matt from Aerohive had some interesting things to say about CAPWAP and the state of things. I wrote a somewhat lengthy response so I thought I'd put up a new post on it. As…
Ok, so that ZoneMinder install I was hoping to do in the last post...yeah....not happening. I've run into this before but I've decided it's just not worth the trouble of trying to fix it. For some reason when you install the PV149…
Installing Ubuntu on my DL380 G2 was pretty straight-forward but I did have a problem with the fans running at full speed. That high pitched squeal could be heard from our bedroom upstairs at the other end of the house. I had some real trouble finding a solution for this.…
I've been busy with work and haven't been able to squeeze in much of anything else. I've done a couple of things like upgrading Unraid to my Pro key and swapping motherboards. In the process I discovered that at least my copy (don'…
Comcast managed to hose up my internet connection which I host this site as well as some forums on. They did this by assigning my static IP's to another location in their network. The result was split routes at their peering routers with the majority of traffic going…
I recently discovered this new Cisco AnyConnect Essentials license being touted for the 8.2 code for ASAs. It took me a little while to parse through the cryptic description on Cisco's site but it seems that you can now get client based SSL for a couple hundres…
Wow...I knew I had been neglecting the blog but I didn't realize it had been over a month! So, what have I been doing? Working too much! This time of year has gotten worse and worse over the last several years. It seems like the kids all…