My name is Rich Jerrido and I am the person behind www.outsidaz.org I am a geek hailing from the city of brotherly love. I started this blog a couple of years back as a dumping place for a lot of working knowledge of mine that I could have available online regardless of where I was. Over time it has evolved into being a full-fledged blog, complete with RSS feeds, comments, and pictures.When I am not hacking on computers for profit, I hack on them for fun.Read more about me »
Like most geeks, I frequently build (and rebuild) systems in the lab. One of my biggest challenges has been ensuring that they stay up to date with the most current content. Being a good netizen, I have always liked to keep a local mirror of content (primarily Fedora and RPMFusion) local, so that my system [...]
As part of a recent restructuring of my home lab, I have started looking at incorporating some monitoring solutions. Currently, I am a big fan of Munin. But as of recently, I started playing around with Observium, and so far, I like it a lot. This document describes how to setup Observium on a RHEL6 [...]
This past Friday, I took (and passed ) the EX429 exam. This exam was a little weird for me as it is the first exam that I have completed since I began my employment at the crimson habadashery. Under normal conditions, completing the EX429 exam post-RHCA means that one would become an RHCSS, but since [...]
After an awesome week of all types of Crimson Haberdashery related activities, it is time to get back to the grind. Summit was kick ass. The presentations from the Red Hatters, partners and customers were very relevant and enriching. Hell, they even let me give a Campground presentation . It is posted here. I am [...]
They say that necessity is the mother of all invention. I would like to go on record as saying that if that is true, then laziness must be his father. Frequently, I have a requirement to spin up a machine or two (or a hundred) in “the cloud” to play around with, test something out, [...]
Needing additional storage in my home lab, and also wanting to buy myself a new toy, I recently purchased the HP Proliant MicroServer. Originally, I was looking at getting a HP MediaSmart Server EX495, but I didn’t want to hack up a box that wasn’t supported/certified to run Linux, nor did I want to build [...]
With the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, it looks like I am going to build all new binaries for HandBrake. In the interim, my old HandBrake 0.9.4 RPMs from Fedora 12 work perfectly fine. This makes sense as RHEL6 is based loosely on Fedora 12/13. Figured I’d document it in case someone is [...]
