Author Archives: Dave

Our 2025 Ireland Non-Experience

Chris has been interested in going to a global 5-year family reunion for her historic clan in Ireland for over a decade. This became a priority since the 2020 CoVID cancellation and finally is feasible. Sadly, the reunion was cancelled … Continue reading

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Kubernetes Essentials for Fedora

After decades of running Linux applications as native packaged installations ( first on bare metal and then in virtual machines ) I’ve taken on the task of migrating the majority of my networked application deployments to containers running in a … Continue reading

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Simplify VMs with netboot

In order to minimize overhead on enabling R&D while maintaining control of company IP, I wanted to ensure any team member would be able to spin up a R&D environment with zero or marginal delay. We could just spend the … Continue reading

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Android’s Achilles Heel

I’ve been a big fan of open source and the Linux platform since 1992 and was thrilled when Android initially launched leveraging the legacy of this platform. My family has Android phones and I acquired several Android tablets over the … Continue reading

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Doubling DVR Media Storage Efficiency

I’ve been wanting to kill our cable contract with Verizon for a while – now we’re getting a step closer. I record TV shows from HD broadcast onto my computer so we can stream them out to apple and android … Continue reading

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