Well, if you don’t blog about forming a new company and getting ready to launch a new product, what do you blog about? I guess when you’re busy, that’s what it takes to get you posting again. I don’t have much to say right now, but we’ve worked our guts out, spent much of our [...]

Wow, landing contract work can be time consuming. Sometimes it takes more work to find the contracts than to fill the commitments. In the last couple weeks I was able to land a few good deals and get few solid leads, but I had to let a big one fall through so I [...]

Looking for work has actually been kinda fun. I get the feeling it has something to do with looking at the right time, being in the right place and having the right skill sets. I’ve known that Utah was a hot-spot for tech and I assumed it was a great place for Open Source hackers. [...]

Anyone who knows me, knows that I think facebook a huge waste of time. I don’t know, maybe if I wasn’t working my guts out trying to launch a business, I’d feel differently about it. Anyway, when I logged into facebook to see about an event (that was only to be found on the privileged [...]

I end a years old relationship with Bloglines. You were good (maybe even the best), but that’s all changed now. Sorry. I guess I’m giving Google Reader a try for now. I don’t know if it will last. After all, I am on the rebound. If you have a better suggestion, I’d love [...]

UPDATED to allow comments [not that anyone cares] :) It looks like Corey Edwards and I will be leading a discussion on FreeSWITCH and Asterisk at a “Birds of a Feather” presentation this Thursday at UTOSC. Here’s the presentation abstract we submitted: VoIP: FreeSWITCH and Asterisk FreeSWITCH and Asterisk users will be gathering with all those interested in [...]

Today I'm going to be liveblogging from the Atlanta Linux Fest The first presentation I attended was "Her PR Problem/Tooting the Horns of Women in Open Source" by Rikki Kite. Even though her presentation was about women in Open Source,... goozbach http://blog.friocorte.com/

A chocolate chip cookie recipe Inspired by the likes of Joseph Hall and Alton Brown. I have spend the last few years working on a chocolate chip cookie recipe. People have been asking about how I make these cookies for... goozbach http://blog.friocorte.com/

The "What?" and the "Why?" I've been a fan of the MultiMarkdown for quite a while now. I keep all of my important notes in this format, which is easy to write with just a simple text editor. I wanted... goozbach http://blog.friocorte.com/

This year I'm not going to be able to make it to the Utah Open Source Conference. This makes me sad. So to get everyone excited. I'm FINALLY blogging about the videos which were taken of my presentation at last... goozbach http://blog.friocorte.com/

I'm doing a presentation for ALE Central this Thursday Here's the blurb In our professional lives we often spend a great deal of time in one sort of presentation or another. A PowerPoint slide show for work, a story to... goozbach http://blog.friocorte.com/

I had a great idea I've been a big fan of the TED talks for a while now and listening to them just inspired me to do something new. Every so often I will post to this blog one of... goozbach http://blog.friocorte.com/

I work in an office with four other people. This is a good thing when it comes to communicating and working together. However it can be a bit detrimental when it comes to entering into "The Zone". To combat this,... goozbach http://blog.friocorte.com/

I've just racked and installed my newest toy at the datacenter: a Cisco Catalyst 4948 switch . Prior to working here I have never had the experience of working with a Cisco switch other than to plug myself into it... goozbach http://blog.friocorte.com/

Using the libvirt tool virt-clone is pretty simple to make a new guest image.virt-clone -o ORIGINAL_GUEST -n NEW_GUEST_NAME -f /new/guest/disk/fileThere's not much more to it.  Virt-clone takes care of all the unique stuff (uuid, mac address, etc).... goozbach http://blog.friocorte.com/

I have two Debian servers, One is the old one, running on hardware that dell is no longer supporting (without us shelling out again) in a couple months. The other -- the new one-- is a virtual instance I have... goozbach http://blog.friocorte.com/

Dot File Management I have always wanted a simple way of managing my bash file settings (.bashrc, .bash_profile and the like). I had built a system much like this one, but it didn't work very well. So I created a... goozbach http://blog.friocorte.com/

I'll be presenting at the Utah Open Source Conference (UTOSC2009). My two presentations are on the Cobbler project. I'll be giving a presentation entitled "Introduction to Cobbler" which deals with the installation, configuration, and initial use of the Cobbler system.... goozbach http://blog.friocorte.com/

Keeping my site up to date I was having trouble keeping my Projects and Presentation pages up to date. I was always creating new projects, and presentation materials, however I always forgot to update the corresponding pages in Movable Type.... goozbach http://blog.friocorte.com/

Cobbler presentation I've finally posted the first draft of my cobbler presentation materials. I'm not done with them, as I need to finish my remote-control system to do some screencasts. You can find the materials here. Re-vamped pages on my... goozbach http://blog.friocorte.com/