Clerical Rigor

Author: C.J. Collier

  • Taking a position at F5

    Hello readers, I recently finished a contract with Liquid Web helping them to build their cloud computing system. The next adventure will be with F5 as a Product Management Engineer. I’ve been hearing good things about F5 hardware since 2000 when Matt Fisher talked up the Big IP he had been using. My friends in…

  • Debian on Sheeva Plug internal NAND flash

    After a bit of work, I got the sheeva plug working the way I wanted it to. First of all, I grabbed a spare 1G USB flash disk I had laying around and installed Debian squeeze to it by following tbm’s instructions here: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install.html After debian was installed to the USB disk, I removed it…

  • R.I.P. Anna Lillian Clothier

    Old news, but worth noting. Clothier, Anna Lillian Anna Lillian Clothier – Pueblo Chieftain – February 8, 1998 – Reno County, Kansas – Anna Lillian Clothier, 93, died Feb. 5, 1998, at Pueblo. She was born July 2, 1904, at Kansas City, Kan., the daughter of John and Della Lally. A Pueblo resident for 54…

  • Putting new radios up in Everett

    I’m happy to note that we’re putting up new radios in Everett. The plan is to provide free but limited Internet access to neighbors and sell service to those who need a “fatter pipe” as the kids say. We’ve been running a repeater for over a year now. It doesn’t provide access to the Internet,…

  • blog optimizations

    Thanks to some recommendations from Jeremy, Pierre and Jeff, this blog should be running a lot less slowly. I’ve installed memcached, set up wordpress plugins, tuned apache MPM parameters, tweaked iptables and tc rules and beaten on the blog with load testing scripts. It seems that it will now reliably handle around 10 concurrent requests…

  • RCW 26.04

    I would prefer that Chapter 26.04 RCW considered anything conforming to the definition of “Domestic Partnership” in SB 5688 qualified as a “Marriage”, but the fact that SB 5688 exists is enough to for Hannah and I to complete a “Marriage License” and formalize our arrangement with the state. We should throw a party or…

  • Hey, look. I got mcs to github before Miguel

    http://github.com/cjac/mcs I’m also hosting it on my own not-as-l33t git repo: http://git.colliertech.org/?p=mcs.git;a=summary Does this mean that I get a “cooler than Miguel” tee shirt?

  • Filing to become a licensed CA

    —–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA1 All Operative Personnel employed by Collier Technologies LLC, known here as the Certification Authority or CA, must also be licensed as notaries public by the local government where they reside during any act performed on behalf of the CA. In addition to passing the Washington State Operative Personnel Exam,…

  • Zelda’s banana

  • Scarlet tying her shoe