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Hi. I'm jon.404, a Unix/Linux/Database/Openstack/Kubernetes Administrator, AWS/GCP/Azure Engineer, mathematics enthusiast, and amateur philosopher. This is where I rant about that which upsets me, laugh about that which amuses me, and jabber about that which holds my interest most: *nix.
Posted 06-13-2014 at 08:18 PM byrocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
Updated 06-13-2014 at 08:28 PM byrocket357
If you follow my blog you'll know that a few months ago I said goodbye to my Linux Engineering position at Rackspace and joined Amazon Web Services as an AWS Support Engineer. It's been long enough that I feel I have my feet on the ground and I am qualified to give a status update.
Holy crap, Amazon. Go big or go home, they say. I'd love to give some cliche' about "if you work at Amazon you've already gone big", but I'm not even certain I could say that. The problems...
Posted 05-29-2014 at 03:25 AM byrocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
Updated 05-29-2014 at 10:16 AM byrocket357
I decided to take the move to Seattle as an opportunity to completely rebuild my home network and harden/update/reinforce particular areas I felt needed attention in my last configuration. A fresh install of OpenBSD-5.5 ensured that nothing from the old configuration remained (partially because I upgraded to a larger CF card, and partially because I just felt like cleaning house completely).
First off, I had a single port that was trunked to the switch, with multiple vlans running...
Posted 05-15-2014 at 01:31 AM byrocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
Bought a beaglebone black.
And a bunch of LEDs, resistors, jumpers and a breadboard. Time for a little fun.
Installed OpenBSD-5.5 on the beaglebone (tried running CURRENT...ouch. Compiling on this thing hurts because the sd card is so incredibly slow...probably my fault, as I used a cheap class 4 micro sd...).
Wired up a simple circuit and started gpioctl'ing pins. Hrmmm. Nothing works. Perform OpenBSD-project problem remediation:
Posted 04-29-2014 at 10:55 PM byrocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
I picked up a BeagleBone Black a few days ago and a microSD card.
I have been playing around with Angstrom (the default Linux install that comes with the BeagleBone) while waiting for my serial cable to arrive so I can install OpenBSD. I've decided that this gadget is going to go in my car. I have a few ideas for what I'd like to do with it, but primarily I think I'm going to attempt to wire up a cellular network + wifi to create a secure mobile hotspot.
Posted 04-14-2014 at 02:04 PM byrocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
Updated 04-14-2014 at 02:16 PM byrocket357
I moved recently to the Seattle area for a job with Amazon.
I'd had Time Warner Cable in San Antonio, which was woefully under-saavy for some of the stuff I was wanting to do (mostly revolving around IPv6), so I was excited to see what opportunities there were with new ISPs in Seattle. My wife didn't want to live *in* Seattle, so we got a nice rental setup out near Renton, a little ways south of Seattle.
One of our next door neighbors is a Comcast employee, as evidenced...
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