Car Stuff

Repair Complete!

A short post.  In the previous post, I outlined how the delivery of my new 2024 Z06 was ruined just due to a serious of unfortunate events, accidents, and mishaps, all outside of my control.  On Monday, 5 August, I dropped the car off at D&V Autobody in Sterling, VA.  They were done with it by the afternoon of Friday,…

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Architect

Becoming an IT Architect: Chapter 4 – Curiosity and Learning

Chapter 4 – Curiosity and Learning Most of what I’ve discussed in the past three chapters has not centered around technical things.  This chapter will pivot on that point a bit.  I did say earlier that the vast majority of an architect’s responsibilities will center around long term designs, and socializing those designs with other folks.  In other words: staring…

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Architect

Becoming An IT Architect: Chapter 1 – New Tools

Introduction With this series of posts, bite-sized in length, I intend to help folks who want to make the transition from IT Engineer to IT Architect.  I’m using the generic “IT” to represent server, security, networking, etc.  I can speak specifically from the perspective of a network engineer moving into network architecture, but the very high level concepts should apply…

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FreeBSD, Network Architecture, Server and OS

FRR Patched And Working

This entry will be another fairly quick one.  In the previous entry regarding the server, routing, etc, I described how I had to work around the fact that FRR didn’t honor FreeBSD’s assigning and deletion of IP addresses from interfaces.  Specifically: I had the line redistribute connected in the server’s BGP configuration.  That means any of the server’s interfaces with…

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