Salt / SaltStack is a tool one can use to handle remote execution of code, deployments and other configuration or maintenance across hundreds or thousands of servers.  It’s command line / shell based, quick, simple and effective.  It uses a Master / Minion setup where commands are issued from the Master to all the Minions. […]

Wanted to share my setup for my HAM and CB Radio.  With the Jeep, I specifically did not want to drill into or damage the interior in order to mount the radios.  I also wanted to make sure the install looked ‘clean.’  I didn’t want wires visible.  With this install, the only wire you really […]

I pulled the plug on an old friend this weekend.  I got rid of my cable TV package.  Primarily because Oprah’s show was ending… j/k… well, maybe…  😉 The End of My Cable TV Life It was Saturday morning and my girlfriend and I were watching ‘Americas Best Dance Crew.’  I don’t even know why.  […]

Thank god I don’t know Dr. Drew otherwise I’m sure he’d stage an intervention between my phone and I.  It runs my life.  As I’m usually on the move from 5a – 10p, I rely heavily on the technology a good phone puts in my hand.  Since retiring my trusted Nokia 9300 in Oct. 2008, […]