Zenoss is an open-source infrastructure management product. Normally used by institutions to watch their networking and server infrastructure, it also is used in smaller, less mission-critical scenarios. Scenarios like mine: I want to monitor my home & home office infrastructure since it has grown over time to contain a fair number of devices. Without open-source …
It is hard to believe but week # 20 of marathon training has come and gone. We capped the week with our longest run yet of the season at 16 miles. It was a great run, and one of my fastest long runs of the season with a 9:44 minute/mile average pace. It was also …
When we last heard about the Dell Saga I expected to have a credit from Dell a day or two after I made the post. As it turned out, it didn’t quite turn out that way. Dell did indeed try to issue me a credit, but they screwed up and instead charged my account for the …
I am, quite simply put, addicted to shiny new cars. It has been almost two whole years since I’ve purchased a new vehicle and the itch has returned, and when it does it’s all consuming until it has been scratched. I will now be obsessing over cars until either I buy another one, or something …
On October 15th registration opened for the 2009 BP MS 150 ride from Houston to Austin. The event filled up in record time, only about 7 hours, compared to 11 days last year. This will be my 5th year to ride in the event; when I first started, I missed signing up several years in …