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These are my notes on setting up a small company linux server to work as an OpenVPN vpn server.

Last week there was a bit of a dustup on the devops mailing list when Miles Fidelman asked about tools for managing shell scripts.

I currently have www.hollenback.net hosted on totalchoicehosting.com.

"If the company's doing well and people don't hate each other, you're probably doing ok." – John Allspaw, speaking at Devopsdays 2011 MV.

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I threw together a crockpot chicken soup from stuff I found in my kitchen, and it turned out pretty well.

My house has a PG&E smartmeter electronic power meter.

In April 2011 I presented a talk at the BayLISA sysadmins user group meeting.

Videos, slides, and such from presentations I’ve given.

This is a list of the articles I’ve written for publication, with both links to the originals and local copies.

So Who Should Be In Charge of Deployments, Anyway?

This was written by Phil Hollenback (www.hollenback.net) I’ve helped a friend administer the network at his engineering firm for about 10 years.

Sysadvent is a yearly system administration advent calendar blog organized by the wonderful Jordan Sissel.

And I Hate Every One Of You, Personally by Phil Hollenback This essay originally appeared in modified form in the SysAdvent Blog.

This crockpot chili is really what got me started with slow cooker cooking.

Shamelessly ripped off from the Bisquick recipe book, with some tweaks.

This was written by Phil Hollenback (www.hollenback.net) Like most of you, I hate dealing with my resume.

I happened to accidentally stumble upon this social media app called ThinkUp a few months back.

(adapted from Martha Stewart Living) Ingredients 1 clove garlic 1 can (15oz) chickpeas 4 to 5 small sweet potatoes 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper 2 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp lemon pepper 2 small to medium lemons 2 tbsp tahini Process Cut sweet potatoes into 2 inch thi…

I’ve been making a lot of baby food lately, (not surprising, since we have a baby).

This article was written by Phil Hollenback (www.hollenback.net) The Problem Like most veteran bash scripters, I have a tendency to abuse shell scripting.

This article was written by Phil Hollenback (@philiph) I assume everyone is familiar with the idea of a pastebin - a website for sharing text fragments with an emphasis on code fragments.

Intro This article is part one of a two part series and is a collaboration between Brandon Burton and Philip J.

Some Thoughts on Having Your First Child in the City by Phil Hollenback Note: after reading this you mighty want to read Big City Toddler.

This article was written by Phil Hollenback who is @philiph on Twitter.

My LinkedIn profile

This page used to show Twitter buzz about hollenback.net via Topsy, which shut down in 2015.

Last summer, the investment company I work for decided to build a disaster recovery site.

Process Monitoring with ps-watcher by Philip J.

And this is the end of the UsTrip pictures, at least until Kevin manages to get his film from the trip developed.

I would tell you to go forward now, but that’s the end of the pictures!

South Bend, Indiana.

Next after South Dakota was a brief foray through the lower corner of Minnesota.

Couldn’t resist the photo op at the Corn Palace.

Basically our trip covered as many tourist traps in the northern US as possible.

See what I mean about Wall Drug being the template for all other tourist traps?

After cruising through most of Idaho and Wyoming on back roads like US 20, we were reunited with the interstate highway system for the trip through South Dakota,Michigan, and Chicago.

As you may know, it gets lonely on the road…

Another view of the pools and elaborate rock formations of Thermopolis.

And Kevin again.

Wondering where I got that bit about “world’s largest mineral hot springs” on the preceding page?

The first leg of our trip took us from Portland to Craters of the Moon, Wyoming.

As I mentioned, the first leg of my trip was from Santa Cruz to Portland.

I travelled across the United States with Kevin Higinbotham in my Toyota Camry in July of 2003.

It’s Getting Tricky Now, Isn’t It?

We end this path for now with another view of my building, on a cloudy day.

A good view of the World Trade Center site.