September 18, 2010 in Honolulu, Hawaii by Judge Bode Uale. Thanks to everyone who was able to share the day with us and thanks for the many well wishes by SMS, email, phone, Facebook, and Twitter we have been receiving! I look forward to seeing all of the photos people …

What? OK, first the acronyms:

• ISC is the Internet Systems Consortium. They are responsible for core Internet software, the F-root name server, and many RFC documents.
• LDAP is the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Read about it here.
• DHCP is the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. It’s the technology that runs …

I’ve moved my backup system to tape. My Amazon S3 experiment has not been reliable (or fast). Network backup is great, but going from a residential connection out is just not useful if have more than a couple gigabytes of data that changes daily. So I decided to go …

We recently finished up our wedding invitations. We did the invitations ourselves, which involved finding stationary, figuring out the content, printing everything, and getting it all assembled in to envelopes. We both worked on the content and layout for each component of the invitation. Our parents helped us collect mailing …

Have not posted here in a while. I like keeping my blog around because I periodically come up with something I want to write about and it does not fit in the Twitter 140 character limit. But, I have nothing to post right now, so how about a collection of …

The topic came up in discussion with some friends the other day. Where does Hawaii get energy? What energy sources are available in Hawaii? The following is my own research in to the subject, so if anyone has anything to add, feel free.

First, those who don’t know, Hawaii …

The comments and email replies I received to my previous post seems to indicate that some people missed the point I was trying to make. A lot of people I heard from privately seemed shocked that I do not come running out the door, guns blazin’, screaming USE LINUX! USE …

I’m not one to push Linux on people, but if they ask about it and decide to give it a try, I will help them out. First, my fiancée started using Fedora when she bought a new laptop. Her old one just stopped working and she took the opportunity …

In my job I have to deal with five time zones, four of which observe summer time at some point in the year. The team I manage sits in the following time zones:

• Central European Time (CET) - 1 hour ahead of UTC
• North American Eastern Standard Time (EST) - 5 hours …

Aside from the tsunami and yammering on about my car, I have been off the blog for a while. Quick summary of happenings in no particular order:

• Had some friends from Innsbruck, Austria visit. Decided to buy an Aerobed for visitors and that turned out to be one of the …