Author Archives: Jeff Forman

Barcamp Boston 6, Day One

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Jeff Forman

Having never been to a Barcamp before, I knew the overall structure of the conference, but was curious if I would actually like it. Truth be told, I found it full of content, without a lot of fluff, even for … Continue reading →

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Boston Pillow Fight 2011

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Jeff Forman

The wife was off doing some graduate school work for the afternoon, so I took the camera and headed down to the Boston/Cambridge Pillow Fight in Cambridge Common to see exactly what all the hoopla was all about. Apparently this … Continue reading →

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New toy, Nikon style.

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Jeff Forman

It had only been ‘recently’ that I had purchased myself a micro four-thirds digital camera for my honeymoon. It took pretty good pictures, and I loved its compactness when roaming around Portugal for 10 days. But I had always wanted … Continue reading →

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Remind Me: Adding SNMP mibs for querying

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Jeff Forman

I was having issues trying to get Nagios to more easily query my APC UPS with the APC-provided MIB. It took me a while to figure out the right bits both on the file system and in my query to … Continue reading →

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You go here, you go there. Bending DHCP to your will.

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Jeff Forman

TL;DR: How to hand out DNS servers in different orders to different clients based upon MAC address. Background: I was connected into my office’s VPN a few months ago and was noticed some very slow DNS resolution of host names … Continue reading →

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