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On the transition from founder to executive

I founded my first set of companies when I was 23. It was 1999, notable both for the significance of the dot-com rush and the insignificance of Y2K, and there was plenty of opportunity for a young company to get contracts building The Next Whatever people were prepared to throw

Shapes & Politics of Puzzle Pieces

I'm not the most avid jigsaw puzzle [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw_puzzle] player you'll ever meet, nor do I pride myself in being a very good one. But I generally like games, and when somebody tricks me into working on a nice puzzle set

How systemd starts services: the bare essentials

This post starts with a warning: This isn't an in-depth treaty about systemd, but that's on purpose. First, no in-depth systemd post should be written this close to midnight, or you'll have bad dreams. And second, I've found that even just this

Things I wish I'd known about nsupdate and dynamic DNS updates

Why Dynamic DNS updates? The network at Async [http://async.com.br] has multiple redundant upstream connections, and one of them is a domestic-grade cable link at 120Mbps. And like probably every other domestic cable provider, Virtua gives out dynamically allocated IPs via DHCP: our firewall (somewhat clunkily [http://forum.

3G Bands and my Nokia 301

So I bought a Nokia 301 [http://www.nokia.com/global/products/phone/301/]. Not a Lumia. No Android. No touch-screen. No Wi-Fi. I know what you are thinking: what was I thinking? Though I used to love phones when I was a teenager [http://www.cultdeadcow.com/cDc_files/