Many years ago, I wrote a blog post about monitoring my UPS with Splunk. Since then, I’ve moved away from Splunk to the Elastic stack. Fortunately, moving that monitoring over was pretty much a breeze. The information is still coming from upslog, which is bundled in with nut. FIrst, I configured nut to define the… Continue reading Monitor your UPS with Logstash the easy way
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Graphing CPU temps using CoreTemp and Elasticsearch
Recently I purchased a new computer case to replace the ancient giant one I bought in 2009. The various fans had stopped working, and I realized that I no longer had a large number of external drives like DVD drives and so forth, so when Newegg had that case on sale, I uncharacteristically made an… Continue reading Graphing CPU temps using CoreTemp and Elasticsearch
Adding a SAN to a certificate using OpenSSL
A long time ago, I set up an internal PKI so I could create my own TLS certificates to add to internal devices and HTTPS servers. I used this primarily for my EdgeOS router since that was the main device I would log into that would give me a warning about untrusted certificates. That was… Continue reading Adding a SAN to a certificate using OpenSSL
Stir-Fried Random
Via Reddit, I saw this gem about a guy who essentially did a self-IPO and puts shares of himself up for bid to raise money. The result was that his investors had an outsized effect on his life, going so far as to make decisions about the gender of the people he should date and… Continue reading Stir-Fried Random
Everything’s Fine!
I’m pretty much blatantly ripping off Atrios for this one, but it is what it is: just incredible. Guy steals $69,000 of money that isn’t his, he gets arrested and charged with felonies. Guys steal $1.6 billion of money that isn’t theirs in essentially the same way, and everybody just sits around hemming and hawing.… Continue reading Everything’s Fine!
Changing the cost of college
Recently, the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management put forward a plan to charge more in tuition for undergraduates than the rest of the U. The plan, which would charge an extra $2,000 a year in order to recruit and retain more faculty members, would change the egalitarian tuition policy that the U has… Continue reading Changing the cost of college
Division I Stupidity
There’s little to add to my friend Murali’s thoughts on the Penn State shame, but it’s still fun to try. I’ve also had a pretty dim view of Division I college sports ever since I was in school when Clem Haskins managed to pull a Minitrue and get the Gopher’s appearance in the 1997 NCAA… Continue reading Division I Stupidity
Combination Of The Two
I saw this touching story on the MPR website a few days ago, and paid special attention to the comments. Usually, when there are stories like this, somebody will come along to say that doing something like this is wrong, because it dilutes the message to kids that life is hard and nobody out there… Continue reading Combination Of The Two
Independence Day Photos
I took some pictures of the fireworks in Minneapolis on July 4th, and they are available here. Samples below the jump.
The tempest over Obama’s school speech
The controversy surrounding today’s speech to school children by President Obama really did become ridiculous. In the end, I hope that the text of the message, and its non-political content, will put to rest at least some of the more reality-based opposition to it (of course, a good deal of the opposition was completely insane… Continue reading The tempest over Obama’s school speech