Loading NIC drivers in Hyper-V Core
This is a somewhat random post to put up here but maybe it will help save someone else time. I’m fascinated by virtualization and cloud technologies and recently virtualized all of Element 84′s...
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Replacing a MacBook SuperDrive with an SSD
At Element 84 it’s pretty common for us to “just handle it” when something doesn’t go the way we wanted. That’s what happened this week with the recent MacBookPro refresh. A couple of us were ready for...
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Multi-field extractions in Splunk
As a SysAdmin, one of the cooler tools that I’ve worked with is Splunk. A project I’m on indexes absolutely every log that it generates into Splunk, from firewall logs to system logs to custom...
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Using Vagrant for Ruby (or nearly any other kind of web…) development
I recently had the opportunity to talk at the DC Ruby User’s Group about how we use Vagrant in our web development projects. My slides are available here. The short version is that Vagrant provides a...
View ArticleWaiting For Torquebox / JBoss to Start
We recently started to use Torquebox on one of our projects. Torquebox is a Ruby application platform built on top of the JBoss Java application server. It has a lot of great features that you can read...
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