by Greg Lawler | Sep 12, 2014 | Blog, Linux, Mac, SSH, Tools
pfSense is a secure and proven open source firewall. As we grow, we find ourselves managing more and more pfSense firewalls across our client base. pfMb is a utility that we have created to automatically backup multiple pfSense firewalls easily and securely....
by Greg Lawler | Jul 9, 2014 | Blog, Kids, kidtech, Linux
The 2014 KidTech class project #1 was a great success! Each team of 3 kids built and programmed their Raspberry Pis, taped them inside a small box with a battery for power and today, we launched each tied to a large weather balloon on a 300′ tether. We got some...
by Greg Lawler | Jun 23, 2014 | Blog, Kids, kidtech, Linux, Nerds
One of our goals at Outside Open is to pass on the love of technology to others. This summer we are offering a class on computers to Kids age 9 and over in Santa Barbara. The class is based on the Raspberry Pi single-board computer and the goal is to introduce kids...
by Greg Lawler | Feb 16, 2014 | Blog, Linux, Mac, Nerds, SSH, Tools, Video
Servers (and other SSH enabled devices like switches, routers and Raspberry Pis) multiply like rabbits in today’s cloud-ready world and sys admins often need to perform the same task on many remote server instances via SSH. If this sounds familiar, then...
by Greg Lawler | Dec 17, 2012 | Blog, Nerds
This is the code that flew in our first successful high altitude mission collecting data from the sensors that I (ungracefully) soldered onto a home etched circuit board hooked up to an Arduino . We used the data to build some cool interactive graphs using...
