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  • Days 1&2: Oregon

    After a few days with the Johnsons (thanks again Chark!), we drove out to the coast. We didn’t know if our camp site had ocean access, so we stopped in Seaside for photos: turns out…

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  • Greetings from Keizer, Oregon

    We drove into Oregon on Tuesday, and have been staying with our friends Cheryl and Mark – who have been amazing hosts that make very good pizza. We’re mostly doing last minute errands, picking up…

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  • We’re off!

    We’re on our way to the west coast! Thanks to Brandon and everyone at Burk’s Tavern for the amazing fundraiser/send-off party. It was a blast, and wonderful to catch up with old friends and make…

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  • Taking a summer off

    In just 8 days I’ll pause my employment at Canonical to attempt something I’ve been wanting to do for years: ride my bike across a continent. I’ve done a few long distance/multi day rides in…

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  • Ubuntu Server now has a 64K Page Size Installer for ARM64

    While we’ve shipped a 64k page size kernel for a while now, starting with 22.04.4, we now provide an arm64+largemem installer image option that installs it by default: https://ubuntu.com/download/server/arm This removes one more step from…

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  • BikeMS 2022

    Help me raise $ for the National MS Society! This year the 2 day even it back, and I’m planning to do the 103/83 mile combo, so throw some cash in would ya? Trying to…

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  • Bike MS Colorado 2021

    For the 4th consecutive year (wow, really?!), I’ll be riding to raise money for MS research. If you’re able, please support me by donating at https://do.nr/lk75y. This year will no doubt be weird as they…

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  • Custom Storage Layouts w/ MAAS preseeds.

    I’ve been working on a project to dynamically create customize server storage layouts using MAAS preseeds. Thanks to some good advice from a couple colleagues, I have something that works pretty well for me. See…

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  • Bike MS Colorado 2020

    I’ve signed up to ride Bike MS 2020 for a 3rd year June 27-28. They haven’t published the route yet, but it’s usually a 100 mile route from Westminster to Fort Collins, then around 50…

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  • Passing lots of PCIe devices to a KVM guest

    I was experimenting to see if there are any practical limits to passing a large number (>64) of PCIe devices to a QEMU/KVM guest in Ubuntu 18.04. My understanding is that I should be able…

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