Sean’s Obsessions

IBM has posted my article on Easy System Monitoring with SAR to their eServer site. I’ve got two more coming, one on monitoring web performance with RRDTool, and one on solving problems with application tracing (ie truss, strace, dtrace)

After watching the Waffle Truth I wanted to try Alton Brown’s Waffle recipe. Previously I’ve been using the one from the Joy of Cooking which is excellent, but having to use cake flour, sift it, and separate the eggs makes waffle making a pain.
AB’s recipe calls for a mix of all purpose and whole […]

Sun’s looking to give away free Niagara servers to bloggers looking to review them.
I put my name in, not that this blog is a huge traffic source, but because I’m doing a series of articles for IBM on Unix performance tuning, and I think it would be sweet to use one of these boxes. […]

I haven’t been posting much even though a lot of things have crossed my mind that would be interesting to write about. I’ve been pretty busy with my family and some other projects. Notably, I’m writing a few articles for IBM DeveloperWorks on Unix performance monitoring which I’ll link to here once they […]

I was reading through some of the notes from the talks at NANOG, the North America Network Operators Group. In particular, notes about the transition to IPv6 caught my eye.
I’ll be the first to admit I don’t know enough about the protocol, but what always struck me as odd was that there’s no […]

I wrote an article for O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony site called Telecom Terms and Concepts. It’s all about how the existing phone system and VoIP works, how they’re the same, and how they’re different.
On another voice related note, John Lange has started up the Canadian Association of Voice over IP Providers, a sort of lobby/working […]