http://www.lancealbertson.com Musings of a UNIX SysAdmin, jazz lover, and wine/beer snob Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:35:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently ran into an issue where I wanted to move several KVM based virtual machines from one server to another server. There's several ways you can accomplish this depending on what you want to do. In my case I was using LVM for the disk backend, so simply copying ... http://www.lancealbertson.com/2009/04/adding-a-simple-progress-bar-to-dd/ Beaver BarCamp is tomorrow in Corvallis and you should go to it! Why? Its completely free and open to EVERYONE Free food and drinks! You get a free T-Shirt (if you register) Cool and interesting topics & ideas will be discussed! Meet other cool people from the area But what is a BarCamp exactly? BarCamp is an ... http://www.lancealbertson.com/2009/04/why-you-should-go-to-beaver-barcamp-3/ Government is something we often consider something we really can't get involved in as average citizens outside of public office. But with the recent grass roots campaign that President Obama orchestrated, it goes to show that we as citizens do have the ability to affect influence in government. One of ... http://www.lancealbertson.com/2009/02/get-involved-trustthevoteorg/ As some of you may have noticed, I usually carry around a tiny little black laptop when I'm at Beer and Blog or at a coffee shop. Since people ask about it so much, I decided to write a few blog posts about it with this being the first. What is ... http://www.lancealbertson.com/2009/02/the-eeepc-netbooks-are-awesome/ In my first post on my new blog I mentioned that I decided to use Drupal for my main blog site. As you can probably notice by the footers on this page I'm no longer using Drupal and decided to go back to WordPress. I noticed several people at the ... http://www.lancealbertson.com/2009/01/switched-to-wordpress-and-heres-why/ That's right, come see my musical talents next Tuesday night from 6:30 - 8PM at Charlies Rhythm and Brews in Albany, Oregon. This will be our first gig ever as a group! We've been working hard since last September or so working out a set and we're finally ready for ... http://www.lancealbertson.com/2009/01/come-see-me-play-my-trumpet/ Beer and Blog at Fireworks was awesome tonight! Thanks so much to Ocean for getting the pizza's lined up for us. It never ceases to amaze me about the tech community here in Corvallis. It may be smaller than Portland, but its certainly just as full of energy and ideas! Tonight ... http://www.lancealbertson.com/2009/01/another-great-beer-n-blog-in-corvallis/ Yesterday was the inauguration of President Barack Obama, our next President of the United States.  Its so refreshing say that! I'm thrilled to see change in our government with progressive ideas. While I'm interested in seeing the important issues that plague our nation get resolved, I'm also interested to see ... http://www.lancealbertson.com/2009/01/a-new-era-has-begun/ I've been spending the last week back home in northeast Kansas with my family for the holidays. I thankfully missed the snowpocalypse in Portland by ONE DAY and had an uneventful flight to Kansas. If I would have decided to leave one day later, I probably would have been stuck in ... http://www.lancealbertson.com/2008/12/happy-holidays-ruby-on-rails-and-thunderstorms/ I'm attempting to get back into the blogging scene with Beer and Blog starting up and all. I decided to go with Drupal since we use it quite a bit at the OSL and I need some more experience with it. Its a bit overkill for a general blog, but ... http://www.lancealbertson.com/2008/12/drupal-for-blogging/