Letsencrypt is finally in public beta! Got from ssllabs.com https enabled on my own play webhost today with let's encrypt! There are many good guides for getting this setup. This is how I got it working with nginx (without using the experimental nginx plugin of letsencrypt). on the webhost …

Yesterday my Internet activities was restricted unnecessarily! While waiting for the replay of last night's NHL game to air, I didn't want to browse quite a large chunk of my normal Internets - because knowing the score while watching the game sucks. Unbeknownst to me - there was no game last night …

Part of my $dayjob as a sysadmin is to monitor all things. Today I felt like checking if the users on our servers could use the local iRODS storage and thus check_irods was born! It checks if it can: put list get remove a temporary file. Dependencies: iRODS 3.2 …

Part of my $dayjob as a sysadmin is to monitor all things. I'll be publishing my home-made nagios checks on github in the near future. Here is the first one that uses the Web API of a DDN's SFA12K (might work on the 10k too, haven't tried) which is a …

You are monitoring the SMART values of your disks right? They're usually a real good indicator of the health of the drive. Thought I'd check out the SMART value of the disks in my desktop today (while checking if I had notifications from smartd on). Low and behold, the Load_Cycle_Count …

Lately I've been using ankidroid to study Finnish - or at least to expand my vocabulary a bit. I think it's great but it won't work by itself and requires quite a bit of tenacity. The good Finnish deck:https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1918695216 it's called "Finnish järjestyksessä". It's made …

coverImage: "original.gif" Passed the Brocade Certified Ethernet Fabric Professional 2015 exam in May and I finally got the results back! https://www.certmetrics.com/brocade/public/transcript.aspx?transcript=8XRF1FE12MR41GC4 This one felt quite hairy compared to the other tests I've taken. Definitely recommend doing the course / getting some …

coverImage: "original.gif" This third post focuses on the remaining sources of information I had for studying for the BCEPF. At the time this post is published I have taken the exam. When I make comments to CLI commands I put them after a #. This is part of a series …

coverImage: "original.gif" This second post focuses on the NOS Admin Guide. When I make comments to CLI commands I put them after a #. This is part of a series of posts on the topic of studying for Brocade's Certified Ethernet Fabric Professional. The two previous posts: Objectives and reading …

coverImage: "original.gif" In a previous post I listed a some of the sources Brocade listed that one should use when studying for the BCEFP exam. Here I'm going through a those I found some comments on what what they are and what I think of them. Beta Course Material …