Tuesday, January 08, 2019

nightly builds are too fast and too slow

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I love build systems. I love working on them because it's such a unique blend between development and operations. A great build system i...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

"What problem are we trying to solve?"

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I was in a meeting with some folks recently where the leader opened the floor for Suggestions . At this point the meeting got very quiet. ...
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Friday, June 08, 2018

Hope is my strategy

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One of my favorite tech books is Google's Site Reliability Engineering book . They open with this tongue-in-cheek quote:   "Hope is...
Tuesday, February 06, 2018

What is the place for one-on-one communication in open-source?

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One of Red Hat's mantras is "develop in the open". There is an entire website, opensource.com, with tons of articles about thi...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Forwarding gpg-agent to a container

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I use Fedora on my main laptop, but sometimes I need to GPG-sign something in an Ubuntu environment. I store my GPG key on my Yubikey and ...
Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Red Hat on NPR

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https://soundcloud.com/fatherlinux/red-hat-on-npr :)
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Sigal packaging and CentOS

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My home server was running CentOS 6, and this was getting a bit long in the tooth: The libwww-perl version that ships in CentOS 6 does n...
Wednesday, December 04, 2013

work

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"What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects—with their Christiani...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Typepad Antispam

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I've just set up Typepad's open-source Akismet backend, also known as "Serotype" . This software internally uses Perlbal ...
Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Life After Graduation

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Wedding in IL Honeymoon in VA Beach Trip with Dreyers in NC Birthday in Littleton CO Skillet concert in VA... in the rain New nephew
Saturday, May 30, 2009

laura-dreyer.com redesign

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Laura and I spent the past three days re-designing her website, adding a blog, re-vamping the gallery... it was hectic but fun! 6 days and ...
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Friday, May 15, 2009

Last View from Moody

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I thoroughly enjoyed my time at MBI, and I won't forget the many memories from the school or the city.
Friday, April 17, 2009

new kenandaudrey.com coming up

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We're re-designing our wedding website to be more interactive, and it's getting a facelift in the process. Here's a sneak previe...
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RAID1 on nslu2

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Can RAID1 work on the nslu2 for big drives? Yes! I've got two 750 GB SATA drives hooked in, and it's humming along. I had to upgrade...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

Authenticating Wordpress with multiple domains in Active Directory

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Recently I've been working on a project involving authenticating Wordpress to Active Directory. There's a great plugin on wordpress....
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Laura's website

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Just finished 1.0 of my sister Laura's website, www.laura-dreyer.com . Laura designed the whole thing in Inkscape, I carved it up with G...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

"trick" interviews

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Apparently giving "trick" interviews is as popular as it is unprofessional. Ethically, is there a difference between what Michae...
Monday, June 09, 2008

Fedora 9 impressions

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I've been running Fedora 9 for a while now. Although some things in F8 felt half-baked to me (I had trouble with PulseAudio + Audacious)...
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Saturday, June 07, 2008

summer internship

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I'm interning this summer at Community Bible Church, at Pocono Lake, Pennsylvania. I drove up to the area on May 24, met the pastor that...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

first mac experience

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A friend gave me an old G3 to play around with today. It's my first Mac experience... and I promptly managed to hose Safari by installin...