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My quest for the perfect fruit smoothie
I have been a smoothie addict for several years, and recently got interested in saving some cash and making my own (at $5 a smoothie, the commercial smoothie shops were making $60+ from me each month!). To begin my quest for the perfect smoothie, I had to define a few requirements: Smoothies needed to be cheaper than the commercial joints I needed a blender that would stand up to smoothie making abuse (crushing ice can kill blades pretty quick) My smoothies needed to taste BETTER than the commercial joints My first task was locating a high quality blender. I had numerous discussions with employees at various smoothie making shops, and they told me that their commercial blenders are crazy expensive (my estimates are in the $300 to $500 range). Ouch…
$ read more →How to become a VMware certified professional (VCP4)
I passed the Vmware certified professional 4 (VCP4) exam this past Monday. The exam was a bit more difficult than I expected, though I passed it with flying colors. If you are thinking about taking the exam, or are interested in learning more about vSphere, you will definitely want to start out by reading Scott Lowe's Mastering VMware vSphere book. Scott did an excellent job putting the book together, and it's concise and easy to follow (I'm curious how Mike Laverick's vSphere implementation book compares to Scott's)…
$ read more →Making the most of your Netflix account by streaming video
I have been a long time Netflix user, and love the fact that I can rent movies through the mail and return them on my own schedule. Netflix now allows you to stream a number of movies to your desktop, though the streaming service requires that you are able to run Microsoft silverlight. This is pretty awesome, though I wanted a way to be able to watch movies on my high definition tv without having to involve a PC. After a bit of searching, I came across the Roku digital video player…
$ read more →Building chroot jails with the Linux yum utility
I just posted an article titled building chroot jails with the Linux yum utility to my website. The article touches on chroot jails, and shows how to create a chroot jail using the yum utility.
$ read more →Slides from my centralized logging and syslog-ng presentation
I gave a talk tonight on syslog-ng, and how it can be used to build a centralized logging infrastructure. If you are interesting in learning more about how to deploy syslog-ng and create a centralized logging infrastructure, you might be interested in the slides I used during my talk. I would like to thank everyone who came out! It was a bunch of fun!
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