Writing · Both zones
Everything
in order.
Every post across both doorways, chronological. 135 entries spanning 18 years of fieldwork, engineering, and whatever else found its way into a draft.
- Field
The Ausangate Prophecy and Glacial Retreat
- Field
Applying the Software Development Lifecycle to AI-Assisted Coding with Claude Code
- Engineering
Three Ways to Leverage AI for Code Development
- Field
Proposed Energy Mix by 2050
- Field
When Authority Overrides Evidence: An Anthropological Analysis of Why People Believe Power Over Perception
- Field
When the Mountain Decides: A Journey in the Peruvian Andes
- Field
The History of Qoyllur rit’i
- Essays
The Shortsighted Expansion of Timber Production: A Dangerous Executive Order
- Essays
Comparing Javier Milei and Bill Clinton's Balanced Budget Strategies: Lessons for the U.S.
- Engineering
Understanding Dataloaders in AI: What They Are and Why They Matter
- Essays
It's Time to Write Your Representatives - February 2025
- Engineering
25 Years of U.S. Oil Dynamics: A Deep Dive into Production, Consumption, and Trade
- Engineering
PCAP or It Didnt Happen
- Engineering
What Are Tokenizers in AI, and Why Are They Important?
- Engineering
A New Approach to Defending Against DDoS Attacks
- Engineering
Network Lifecycle Management with Hierarchical Configuration
- Engineering
Multi Change and Netlib Updates
- Engineering
Kicking the tires on the new Ansible Network Modules, Part 2
- Engineering
Kicking the tires with the new Ansible Network Modules
- Engineering
NANOG 66
- Engineering
Using a serial console on Mac OS X
- Engineering
Using Ansible to update your Home Dynamic DNS via Rackspace Cloud DNS
- Engineering
MPLS Control and Data Plane Cheat Sheet
- Engineering
Cisco VIRL - Bare Metal Install Tips and Lessons Learned
- Engineering
Cisco VIRL Status? Digital Paper Weight
- Engineering
The Irony of Using SDN and NFV to Study Legacy Network Technologies
- Engineering
Mental Note: Tracking L3 Glean Attacks
- Engineering
pyMultiChange - SSH Script Update
- Engineering
Updated pyRouterLib and pyMultiChange
- Engineering
Python with Multiple Threads
- Engineering
Connecting Your Virtual IOS-XE and IOX-XR Lab To Your Physical Lab
- Engineering
Working with Cisco Routers and Switches with Python
- Engineering
Dynamic DNS Updates via the Rackspace Cloud DNS
- Engineering
Updating my Python Scripts to access Cisco Devices
- Engineering
Linux Unified Key Setup
- Engineering
OSPF Area Types and LSA's
- Engineering
IOS-XR (XRv) and IOS-XE (CSR1000v) KVM Config Generation
- Engineering
CCNP - Service Provider - SPROUTE
- Engineering
TelnetCisco.py - A Reusable Module for Accessing Cisco Devices with Python
- Engineering
Quick intro to Puppet
- Engineering
I'm going to place these here...
- Engineering
DMVPN with VRF's for the Internet interfaces and BGP
- Engineering
Rackspace Performance vs Standard Cloud Server Disk I/O
- Engineering
Managing Cisco Routers / Switches with Python, Take 2
- Engineering
Configuring Cisco routers and switches with Python
- Engineering
BGP Goodness and Links
- Engineering
Google Chromecast and scanning for WiFi Networks
- Engineering
Performing a full system restore after a Linux server re-kick
- Engineering
Introduction to MPLS
- Engineering
SDN Goodness
- Engineering
SELinux For Mere Mortals
- Engineering
Cisco Zone Based Firewall and UDP based Traceroute
- Engineering
Filesystem I/O Speeds Benchmarking Perl Script
- Engineering
Learning Python
- Engineering
Bash - Random Password Changer
- Engineering
Bash Shell Enumerator - Command Not Found
- Engineering
Quick one-liner to change all databases tables to InnoDB in MySQL.
- Engineering
OpenNHRP RPM Updated
- Engineering
Linux File Server for Apple Time Machine Backups
- Engineering
Rackspace Private Cloud Edition - Compute Setup
- Engineering
Rackspace Cloud Servers and Networks with Open vSwitch and VXLAN between Data Centers
- Engineering
Playing with Openvswitch.
- Engineering
The Nerdiest IPv6 related domain name on the Internet
- Engineering
IPv6 Subnetting
- Engineering
IPv4 Subnetting Made Easy
- Engineering
SELinux - Listing Available Contexts
- Engineering
RHCE Series: HTTP
- Engineering
RHCE Series: SMTP
- Engineering
RHCE Series: SSH and NTP
- Engineering
Making NAT work with the default Red Hat iptables ruleset
- Engineering
RHCE Series: DNS
- Engineering
RHCE Series: FTP
- Engineering
Free Web-Based F5 Training
- Engineering
RHCE Series: Configure SELinux to support the service.
- Engineering
RHCE Series: Configure the service to start when the system is booted.
- Engineering
RHCE Series: Build a simple RPM that packages a single file.
- Engineering
RHCE Series: Produce and deliver reports on system utilization
- Engineering
RHCE Series: Remote Logging
- Engineering
RHCE Series: Configure a system as an iSCSI initiator that persistently mounts an iSCSI target.
- Engineering
RHCE Series: Use /proc/sys and sysctl to modify and set kernel runtime parameters.
- Engineering
RHCSA Class Notes
- Engineering
RHCE Series: Use iptables to implement packet filtering and configure network address translation (NAT): Part 2
- Engineering
Making a VM boot at VM host boot in KVM
- Engineering
RHCE Series: Use iptables to implement packet filtering and configure network address translation (NAT): Part 1
- Engineering
Think that you have a compromised Red Hat based system?
- Engineering
PPTP to HE IPv6 Network Perl Script
- Engineering
RHCE Series: Route IP traffic and create static routes
- Engineering
IPv6 Subnetting
- Engineering
RHCE Exam Objectives
- Engineering
OpenNHRP is now available via RPM
- Engineering
Logical Volume Management in Linux
- Engineering
Using a Proxy Server to access the IPv6 Internet?
- Engineering
Linux Encrypted Filesystems
- Engineering
Backdoor in the openBSD IPSEC Stack?
- Engineering
It's been a while...
- Engineering
LAN Switching Layer 3 Redundancy Protocols
- Engineering
Layer 3 LAN Switching
- Engineering
Virtual LAN's and Trunks
- Engineering
Diebold FIT File Perl Script
- Engineering
VLAN Trunking Protocol
- Engineering
OSPF Notes and Gotchas
- Engineering
What information is your browser giving away?
- Engineering
Automated Linux Backups utilizing rsync over SSH
- Engineering
Virtualization Notes, Best Practices, and Gotcha's
- Engineering
OSI and TCP/IP Layer Models
- Engineering
NSA Security Configuration Guides
- Engineering
A Net::Telnet::Cisco Example (Save Running Configuration)
- Engineering
An Open Source Implementation of Cisco's Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN)
- Engineering
Prepping Ubuntu Server Edition to run as a DMVPN.
- Engineering
Using Perl to grab a proccess id in Linux