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Re: Replace Your Google Fiber Network Box with a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite or PoE

Erik Ankrom — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 18:29:51 -0000

Would this also work with the Secure Gateway devices? I know the GUI and overall feature set is more basic on the UniFi products, but I'm considering it for my in-laws new house when they get Google Fiber in the coming months. I'd like to be able to easily remotely configure and troubleshoot their network remotely if needed.

This post helped me setup my EdgeRouter perfectly! Loving Google Fiber with my EdgeRouter setup!

Re: Packet Labs Update: PacketBots! - Insights from Packet

Erik Ankrom — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:08:05 -0000

Thanks Aaron. I've been testing Grafana with InfluxDB, as well as python-based Diamond collectors for various metrics gathering locally on the Pi. The ping and HTTP collectors worked pretty well out of the box, and it's also relatively straightforward to script a quick speedtest mini collector. Several GitHub repositories exist for companies/individuals that have done custom Diamond collectors and handlers. You can script in any language, not just Python. We've also got some smokeping slave probes on the Pi feeding into a centrally located smokeping master server.

We are testing actual GPS units attached to the Pi devices due to GeoIP only encoding the most external facing IP address. In an enterprise environment, or larger dispersed network, this would sometimes reduce accuracy, especially with remote locations on a common larger network. Our focus has been more on network issues between the end user location or service providers, and the destination hosted environment, rather than the availability of the hosted environment itself (similar to your use case). Pingdom, Uptime Rocket, etc. are pretty effective for availability tracking.

I just did some quick testing with Salt, and it's indeed pretty simple and straightforward (compared to my initial testing with Puppet, haven't yet explored Chef). The puppet and chef communities seem to have more modules/formulas/recipes, but Salt looks like a good simple candidate for this use case, with a good base of formulas on GitHub. Writing your own formulas doesn't look to be too much of an arduous task.

Thanks for the post, and suggestions!

Re: Packet Labs Update: PacketBots! - Insights from Packet

Erik Ankrom — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:32:33 -0000

Any plans to open source the project? I've started a similar project, without the orchestration, but found the need to start thinking about more scalable management. Looking forward to your followup post!

Re: Poll: Why is Apple building a massive stage for the September event?

Erik Ankrom — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:39:56 -0000

It's a popup multiple story shopping mall with their new wearables (iWatch) integrated into the latest fashion trends. Multiple floors, with sections just like a department store. Many many mannequins. All the new fashion and design execs need a space to show their creativity and integration with Apple's new products.

Re: http://www.erikankrom.com/post/7874569705

Erik Ankrom — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:21:25 -0000

Here is a workaround: http://www.alexanderwilde.c...

Re: Plog - Justin Kendall - UFO over Lee's Summit? Fireworks? Or just a satellite? (video)

Erik Ankrom — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:52:47 -0000

Agreed, Chinese Lantern. We lit off around 30 of them last night, very cool to follow them, but certainly not a UFO.

Re: Plog - Jonathan Bender - Five off-the-field reasons that Sporting KC will sign Chad Ochocinco

Erik Ankrom — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:09:36 -0000

It's like Michael Jordan playing baseball. He tried it, had some fans show up, released a rookie card, but didn't pan out. Did anyone think baseball was a joke? No. Did anyone think Jordan was any less of a badass since he couldn't cut it in baseball? No.

I say give him a shot, let him sit the bench, sub in a few games. If he isn't playing football, what's wrong with it? There are certainly some good arguments in the article.

Re: Kansas State No. 1 in Big 12 men's basketball coaches' poll. Yes, Kansas State

Erik Ankrom — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:16:00 -0000

Coaches can't vote for their own teams.

Re: Announcing Wikirank: Tracking what's popular on Wikipedia

Erik Ankrom — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:53:52 -0000

Jeff, congrats on the new site launch. Looks great! Cool functionality.

I admired your work with MeasureMap and Google Analytics, and this new work is no exception. I have a possible project that would be of very similar interest to these type of sites. However it relates closely to the private sector than public sector, but has some great potential. By private sector, not working for a company or contracted by a company, but catering to customers of a company.

If you are interested, please let me know, I can share some more information.

Re: Mint.com Helpful Feature

Erik Ankrom — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:01:26 -0000

The percentages above don't reflect my actual rate, but rather the change in rate. I'd rather not post what my actual rate is. The total change from the situation was 1.7% lower than what it was before.

Re: Boxee on AppleTV

Erik Ankrom — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:57:20 -0000

I had the black screen happening on previous versions of Launcher and Boxee, but it should be fixed with the latest release of both. I would make sure you started from scratch, with the LATEST patchstick, and updated the AppleTV to 2.3, then installed Boxee. Then, once you've got the Launcher installed, update the Launcher itself FIRST, then Boxee. I'm using the Launcher's MultiFinder v2.3, and Boxee v0.9.7.4825.

I also included other instructions on how to get smb, afp, usb, etc installed through nitoTV if you want to take it a step further! Good luck!

Re: New Years Resolutions

Erik Ankrom — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:47:25 -0000

@m.f.
Actually, take a look at http://www.erikankrom.com/mint and you can see when anyone visits my page!

Re: Darius Rucker Goes Country

Erik Ankrom — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:27:57 -0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Who knows if they are related, possibly. Thanks for the comment!

Re: WordPress LifeStream Plugin: wp-lifestream

Erik Ankrom — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:32:42 -0000

I checked out the latest svn, and got this error when activating. I am also on the latest wordpress svn.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/.alina/erikankrom/erikankrom.com/wp-content/plugins/lifestream/lifestream.php on line 122

Re: YouTube and Copyright

Erik Ankrom — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:16:58 -0000

Look at that, a response from the authorities themselves! I appreciate Web Sheriff for taking the time to respond.

As I stated in my post, I had posted a couple of concert videos, which I have now removed as well.

Guess I'll have to pick up my guitar and bust out some Van Morrison originals! Triggs I am sure would do a much better job than me!

Re: AppleTV 2 breaks free from the PC, remains under Apple’s lock and key

Erik Ankrom — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:34:31 -0000

Take a look at the AwkwardTV website:

http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/w...

I use Sapphire http://appletv.nanopi.net/ on my AppleTV to stream divx and xvid movies from my home NAS. It takes a bit of work to get all of the workarounds in place for it to work.

Alan Quartermain has released a Backrow developers kit http://alanquatermain.net/b... that works for both Frontrow and AppleTV, and there are a handful of existing plugins out there, some even open source projects.

The AppleTV has a LOT of potential, and I agree that there are some very cool possibilities out there. I would love to see a native smb,ssh, and divx codec compatibility built in, (but what would the movie studios think about that?). Don't think Apple is going to be opening it up anytime soon as far as codec compatibility goes.

Re: Anatomy of a(n ongoing) Disaster..

Erik Ankrom — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 06:35:38 -0000

Here is a though from myself, who works for a data management company that owns 4 data centers, and also has a Dreamhost account. 1) I appreciate the honesty, most people in business are very sly about these situations. 2) hosting my personal website, I am fairly unaffected by this, so it is somewhat an oversight for me. 3) I have a responsibility in my daily job to maintain systems in our datacenter with thousands of concurrent users, and we are penalized if we do not meet 99.9% contractual agreements, and we are about to finalize 99.99%agreements. What does this mean? We pay for every MINUTE that we do not meet that mark. For a SERVICE industry, I think this is a high quality to live up to, and most hosting providers would not step close to this number. 4) Dreamhost makes no claim that they will provide services 24/7, but they are a very reliable service for the needs of a customer such as myself. If you want a high quality provider, be ready to fork up the big bucks, and help pay for many more salaries.

I'll stick with my $8/mo hosting package, pretty good deal in my book.

Re: Anatomy of a(n ongoing) Disaster..

Erik Ankrom — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 06:35:38 -0000

I'll stick with my $8/mo hosting package, pretty good deal in my book.