A Simple Script for Listing Every Cron

Remarkably there is no well known Linux utility for listing out every cron job on a system, a task which Systems Administrators frequently need to do.

A Working Serial Console in KVM Guests

You can't login to your kvm guest via ssh, and you want to connect with virsh console. Then nothing happens.

Splunk and Fluentd

[Splunk](https://www.splunk.com/) is currently the ruling solution for log aggregation and analysis. Last Year I took time to look at it and FluentD an Open Source Alternative.

Working with Splunk

This is the second of three posts about Splunk and Fluentd. This one is about some of the things I do to set up Splunk.

Rejecting Fluentd

Fluentd was a disappointment, the savings won’t offset the extra effort it would take.

PulseCast Update, Ansible Role Published to Galaxy

While repairing my audio setup after updates broke it, I created an ansible role.

Resolving Preferential Ballots with Vote::Count

VoteCount and Preferential Ballots Philadelphia Linux Users Group 2019

Linux KVM Talk

After my earlier post on KVM, members of my local Linux Users Group expressed a lot of interest. In this talk I give an overview of the Linux QEMU-KVM-libvirt stack and show how to set up a home lab on a recent Debian/Ubuntu (early 2019).