Andrew Wippler's Sketchpad

(Note: This guest post is from my wife, Nicole.

Today marks the first day in over 29 years where I am no longer a resident of the great state of California.

Let's face it, Puppet's method of certificates is a pain and huge administration overkill if done manually.

My first tablet was an Acer A500 which ran Honeycomb (Android 3.0).

There are many curious individuals who tinker with GNU/Linux as a Server OS and want to experience what it is like as a Desktop OS.

I originally authored this on Aug 16, 2016 at http://unix.stackexchange.com.

Today, in a surprise move into technology, Tupperware has released a new container platform competing with Docker and rkt.

I have been contacted several times in regards to my captive portal post.

I am a long time user of Evernote.

The kuerig device is a visually pleasing design.

In 2017, this topic seems a little dated and will probably not get me an opportunity to speak at a conference.

I have not posted in a few weeks.

With a year drawing to a close, I have a habit of looking back at my goals I set for myself, see how I have done, and set goals for the new year.

While working on various projects and ultimately the need for a Unix timestamp for expiring swift objects in OpenStack, I needed a quick way to convert past, present, and future timestamps to the Unix epoch.

I have been studying for my OpenStack certification test (the COA) which is scheduled next week.

On Dec 20th, I am scheduled to take my COA exam.

I have been reading a few articles that have been published recently regarding the use of docker in production.

My wife and I adopted a tradition on the day after Thanksgiving - after a full night's sleep - we visit stores and go shopping around 10am.

A repository is a place where files are stored, indexed, and available through a package manager to anyone who has the repository information.

There are several factors that go into securing a web application.

I am still in shock that the Chicago Cubs won the World Series in Baseball which ended their 108 year drought.

GlusterFS is a distributed file system.

I began my Linux hobby in 1999.

Update: (5/28/17) yes, there is the puppet/r10k which supercedes the zack/r10k.

One of my hobbies is video gaming.

In case you missed it, the largest recorded Direct Denial of Service (DDoS) occurred.

I completed my first public module for puppet and submitted it to the puppet forge.

You still use FTP You use SFTP You have a single server hosting 1 website, MySQL, and PHP.

I am not a very big fan of hot drinks, but I enjoy drinking a cup/glass/thermos/pot/gallon of coffee.

The internet of things (IoT) is getting pretty saturated with devices most of which are either smart watches or activity trackers.

One of the easiest ways to deploy a virtual machine in oVirt is first to install the OS then turn it into a template.

In last week's post we set up PWM insecurely.

We in IT have heard it often, the #1 request coming into help desk ticket systems is password resets, account lockouts, and the like.

You may have already heard the news about Delta Airlines catastrophic failure.

I am a SysAdmin who likes to code.

I recently submitted a proposal to remove Microsoft Office from off my network and switch to Google Apps for Work and LibreOffice.

I see a trend in system administration tasks moving toward the Ruby programming language.

The Linux Foundation is offering select courses at a discount until 7/31/16.

In a previous post, I explained how to set up a captive portal on a Raspberry Pi which was running Raspbian (Debian).

Puppet on Mac is a mixture of Puppet on Linux and Windows.

Using Puppet on Windows workstations can be a challenge.

When you have a mixed client workstation environment (Windows, Linux, Mac) using GPOs only covers a portion of the environment.

Configuration management engines (CME) have increased in popularity over the past several years.

Let's face it, Linux is a kernel and no matter what distribution you use, it is all the same.

Do not get me wrong - I use Ubuntu and try to contribute to bugs (making and fixing).

Chromebooks are cloud focused.

Having a server in the cloud scared me at first.

A few years ago I was tasked at looking at solutions for digital, static wayfinding.

Congratulations, you have installed X!

I messed up on the post this week.