Technical Blog of an Amish Network Administrator

Category Archives: Flotsam & Jetsam

Just a quick update to this project.  I am still working on it but as always life has gotten in the way.  I do currently have Snort, fprobe, driftnet and etherape working on it.  Since these devices do not have a onboard video, I’m redirecting the display of Driftnet and Etherape to my Winders machine [...]

Last summer I was visiting another plant for meeting and they still had their original Graphics Panel functional.  They also had a SCADA system, so I think they were maintaining their graphics panel for nostalgia reasons.  For months before that I had been trying to come up with a way to display our entire process [...]

I’m probably like many other people in my field, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday we stop by xkcd for a weekly dose of reality and humor.  I’ve been reading it for quite sometime and always look forward to what’s new there.
This particular one I found funny and true, as I just had a conversation relating [...]

One of my more fun duties here is designing the screens for our SCADA system.  Our current system comprises about 80 screens controlling all kinds of equipment.  While I was doing a lot of the design I got to thinking about the LCARS system from Star Trek, and that even though most people never thought [...]

This is an email that I sent to a project manager of a contractor that was doing some upgrades.  I wrote this 1 week after the incidents occurred just to give myself sometime to cool down.  I found it unbelievable that anyone would this being in the field that they’re in.  The contractor should have [...]