Yesterday was my last day as a member of the Juniper Networks team. After 4 years toiling to bring software to the networking industry, I leave feeling proud of what was accomplished, yet still unsatisfied in reaching the ultimate potential of software defined networks, apis, and network applications. The networking industry transition from purpose-built hardware-based [...]
If you follow computing at all, you might be familiar with the Raspberry Pi project. It’s a simple ARM processor mini computer. That is a computer that can run Linux on a board the size of a credit card and is power efficient enough to run on battery, yet is powerful enough to stream full [...]
About 5 years ago, I made the decision to centralize all of the media that we have for our home on one server. I built the server from scratch and used Fedora as the OS complete with RAID 5, logical volumes, etc. It worked brilliantly until it was time to upgrade drives, and then was [...]
When reading my normal news feeds this morning I came across a rare treat, a cogent explanation of spacetime and the prospects for traveling faster than the speed of light. (Yes, I know, I need a hobby.) But it was so good, I couldn’t resist sharing it. Scotty needs to listen closely here as I [...]
This is a really cool video passed to me the other day. Airplanes are one of my first loves (despite the way I feel about them with frequent business travel.) Amazing how RC aircraft have advanced and the ability to do tricks with technologies like reverse pitch props. Take 2 minutes to watch, it’s fun. [...]