Author: Jason Burns
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Ditching No-IP for DuckDNS
I’ve been using dynamic IP address services from no-ip.com for a long time to give a DNS name to my dynamic home IP. I remember having a no-ip.com address in college around the early 2000s for my dorm, then apartment, computer. I went through a hiatus after college where I managed my domain name to…
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Hiking: New Hope Creek North
The adventure on tap for today was to find a hiking trail that was close to home that we haven’t hiked before. We’re lucky in the Durham area to be so close to Duke Forest and the Eno river. After a bit of online searching with coffee and couch time, we settled on New Hope…
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All Things Open 2018
Last week I attended the All Things Open conference in Raleigh. This is a conference dedicated to Open Source Software, which is very different from the usual vendor led conferences I attend. It was also unusual to commute to a conference in the morning and then back home at night. Usually conference season means at least…
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Recipe – Alton Brown’s Aged Eggnog
Alton Brown’s Aged Eggnog This is a great tasting, boozy eggnog recipe worth saving and worth making year after year. We’ve let this one age up to 3 months with great results. Our secret has been re-purposing beer growlers (glass jugs) to age the nog. I’ve done a double batch before, but separating two dozen…
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Things You Won’t Learn on My LinkedIn Profile
I had to do a little introduction exercise when I moved over to the marketing team as a Tech Marketing Engineer. I had to share some things you wouldn’t learn on my LinkedIn Profile with the team. I thought it was fun to walk through and worth reposting here! I just married the woman of…
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Fiber Repair
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Backhoe vs Internet
Fiber optics battle yet again with their arch nemesis the backhoe. Results are predictable. Whole neighborhood out.
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Nutanix AHV Networking – What’s New
We just made a bunch of announcements about networking enhancements to AHV, and I’ll be posting about them at Nutanix.com. Here’s an overview of the series: Part 1: AHV Network Visualization Part 2: AHV Network Automation and Integration Part 3: AHV Network Microsegmentation Part 4: AHV Network Function Chains And it wouldn’t be a blog…
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Let’s Encrypt – How do I Cron?
Let’s Encrypt was really easy to setup, but Cron was less so. I kept getting emails that the Let’s Encrypt renewal was failing: I had a cron job setup with the absolute bare minimum: When I ran at the command line, everything worked just fine. I was like, “Oh – this must be some stupid…
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Let’s Encrypt – Easy – Free – Awesome
I recently saw a news article about StartCom being on Mozilla and Google’s naughty list. Things looked bad, and my StartCom certs were up for renewal on the blog. I have seen articles flying around about Let’s Encrypt for a while now. The idea seemed awesome, but the website seemed so light on technical instructions…