While I’m at VMworld this year, I’m planning on heading over to BrewCraft. I’ve been to SFO to many times to have not visited this homebrew store. If you’re in the area for VMworld and want to head over there with me, find me, and let me know!
iPhone|iPad OpenVPN client to Untangle OpenVPN Server
With my Untangle router up and running, one of the things I’ve been working on lately at home is different OpenVPN options and configurations. As I’m not running VMware View at home (shocked I’m sure!) I wanted a way to do RDP or VNC connections from an iphone or ipad back into my house. I can already get to my work desktop via View, but if I can get to my home desktop via OpenVPN and a standard remote protocol connection, I no longer have a requirement for a fullblown laptop while traveling.
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A little home tinkering
I’ve been in the process of updating most of my home infrastructure. It’s funny, one of the main reasons I started XenKibbutz.com was to move production services out of my house and into a proper datacenter. Now, with the proliferation of cloud services, virtualization, and my awesome phone providers, I really don’t have any hosted services left in the house.
What is all this stuff?
What I do have is a pile of networked devices. Printers, Game Consoles, Storage Arrays, Phones, Cell Phones, Desktops, Laptops, iPods, toasters, it seems like everything today that can be put on the network is. And they all need an IP address. Beyond that, if I want to get any work done in my house on my laptop, I need to make sure I’ve got a signal wherever I want to work from. I know it’s old, but I felt it was time to get out of my emotionally unhealthy relationship with my linksys 11b wap.
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Three successful years of XenKibbutz.com
It’s been almost three years since XenKibbutz.com opened it’s doors. I’ve learned a ton about self service provisioning, Xen, and hosted services. While I’m sad to announce that we’ll be closing up shop later this year, there is a light at the other end. I’m going to be ramping up a new hosted virtualization platform (migrating some remaining customers) and seeing where things can really go! It’s a great time to be in the hosted space, an amazing time for virtualization and open source, and I can’t think of a better way to learn about, and hopefully help contribute to, some really amazing technologies.
Fitness Musings : part III
Here’s a great piece from an article I had sent to me from a friend a few months ago. If anyone knows where it’s from, please let me know so I can quote /attribute it appropriately.
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