When bad things happen in your infrastructure, having automated recovery tools and reliable backups can turn a major headache into a minor inconvenience.
Computers
Why I HomeLab
My motivation for operating a "personal cloud" environment at home and automating infrastructure deployments and configurations
My Short Foray Into Linux on the Desktop
For the last few months, I’ve had this idea that I wanted to try a linux desktop machine as my main development computer for a while. With the release of Ubuntu 9.04 in April, I decided to put
Apple Mighty Mouse Rant
I try really hard to be an Apple fan-boy…I really do. I love my Macbook Pro, really like my Mac Mini and adore OS X. I even like my AppleTV units pretty well (a little less with the new
Not to Sound Like an Apple “fan-boy” BUT…
I absolutely love Time Machine with Time Capsule! Time Machine by itself was cool enough when I was using it with an external drive on my desk. The only problem with that scenario is that everyone in our house had
Today is the Anniversary of My Enlightenment
Ok, so maybe that’s stretching it a little bit. BUT, one year ago today I took delivery of my new Apple Macbook Pro. I continue to be just as impressed with it now as I was the day I