Calculating System Thermal Output

The Internet abounds with information on the topic of thermal output. I’ve collected the following formulas and placed them here for my quick reference. Watts = 0.293 * BTU-Hr Watts = 3,530 * Tons BTU-Hr = 3.41 * Watts Tons = 0.000283 * Watts   For example, PacketLight PL-1000TN Optical Transport Unit PSU rated at... » read more

How I Implemented a CALEA Solution (With Juniper JUNOS)

The following information was first published on 11/15/2007 at http://www.unixadmin.cc/calea/ CALEA is an acronym for, “Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act“. Enough time has passed that an update to this document is needed. The following should be considered historical. Header Draft Version: 0.1.2 Service: Flow-Tap, IPSec and Dynamic Tasking Control Protocol (DTCP) Operating System: Juniper... » read more

New Year – New Blog System

With the new year it seemed like a good time to make the jump to WordPress.  Started the moving process about a week ago and it’s almost finished now.  A few more items to go and it will be fully moved over.