Author Archives: Jeff Kramer

Last night was the February OpenStack Austin meetup.  I took my handy little Canon S95 with me to record the proceedings for those of us who couldn’t make it.  Here are the two videos from last night, and a special … Continue reading →

Let me paint you a picture: It’s the near future.  Your insurance company sends you a little gadget that you carry around.  It notes when you get a little too aggressive or if you’re out partying too late, and automatically … Continue reading →

Irma: Do you think we should have started in reverse? Jeff: What? Irma: You know, Jeff, Irma, maybe we should have picked an H name. Jeff: We could still change it. Hanna, Harriet, Horace, Henrietta… Irma: Hazel. Jeff: Helena. Irma: … Continue reading →

I have ideas in the middle of the night sometimes, which usually disappear into the aether because I’m not in a position to act on them.  Last night’s particularly choice morsel, which I had Irma email me (I got that … Continue reading →

This thing is a menace: The endlessly scrolling disconnection state when OSX’s Network Connect VPN client goes sideways.  You can’t reconnect because it just sits there trying to disconnect.  You can’t kill it in the gui, but it turns out, … Continue reading →

Sometimes you need a machine to pass network traffic from one interface to another and fiddle with it.  You may need to route traffic to your network, or inspect network traffic in a transparent bridge.  In my case I needed … Continue reading →

Time to start fresh.