Had an issue with my SAN last month and wrote a post mortem article. Check it out!

Crash and Burn and What We Learned: A SAN Post Mortem

Crash and Burn and What We Learned: A SAN Post Mortem regarding a storage area network misconfiguration that occurred on January 24, 2024.

Gonna build my second rack right after a nice breakfast. Gonna store the den switch, backup server and other fun things.

So I guess this is now the butterfly app? Cool. 🦋

FINAL REMINDER: PHP 8.0 EOL is today, November 26, 2023. If you are running Enterprise Linux, I wrote an article how to upgrade.

How To Upgrade PHP On Enterprise Linux

In this tutorial I will demonstrate how to upgrade from PHP 8.0 to 8.3 on Red Hat, Rocky, Alma, and Oracle Enterprise Linux.

Patch notes for October 2023 have been made public on my blog! sysadminafterdark.com/software-pat...

Software Patches: October 5, 2023

Software patches are an essential part of information technology. This article is a breakdown of software patches applied for October 2023.

The rack looks sooo good!

Last night, DC FW01 had to have an SSD swapped, Sophos reinstalled, and the backup restored. Everything came up smoothly. Gotta love weird OS and licensing issues fixed with a hardware swap. I’m glad this issue came out before I was deep in the mud with prod systems down.

Gonna be an interesting weekend. I’m setting up a server for Colo. Let’s do this!

Sitting here at work waiting for the onsite T1 to finish like:

I finished SOMA last night! If you like Sci-fi horror games, check out my play through here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKA2LccPxjUtLRs8e8r9_VMcCbCmspRzb