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5 Cups of coffee

5 cups of coffee is what it took to get me going this morning. Last night we were back in a cabin, but I was so tired last night, that I passed out, and woke up in the same position I fell asleep in (I normally roll around a bit). So today I [...]

Cavity Lake Fire Update

Last night when we got back to the lodge (We’re staying at the Gunflint Lodge, since sleeping in a bed is much nicer than sleeping in a tent), the lodge had moved us out of our cabin because they had it previously reserved for last night by someone else. So we ended up sleeping [...]

On Deployment

Well on Sunday I got a call from Jay, there is a forest fire going on in the Boundary Waters again. So I drove up here on Sunday night, and we’re finally settled in with the network deployed, and I have some time to get online and catch up.
For those who are unaware, I [...]

The power of Raid

So the other week I was in the datacenter doing a routine check on one of our servers, and I noticed that Chimera (our MySQL server) had a blinking orange light on it, and it was making this *beep beep beep* noise.  Great!   The Raid array has failed, or possibly the hard drive.
Well it doesn’t [...]

Possibly deployment any time now

I just got a call from Jay, one of my clients, that we built a rapid deployable emercency communications system for.  It looks like there is a 90% probability of being called out to deployment within the next few days.  If we are deployed, it means I get to pack my bags and head to [...]