Security RSS feeds
I follow the RSS feeds for the following security sites to keep up to date on what’s going on.
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Move to Jekyll
As discussed on my personal blog, I’ve moved all the more technical posts from there to this site, and also moved both sites from Ghost to Jekyll (link at th...
Bitbucket Pipeline multiline environment variables
I recently had a case where I wanted to use a ssh private key in a Bitbucket Pipeline, and found out that Bitbucket Pipeline environment variables do not sup...
Issue expanding Synology NAS volume
This week I decided to take advantage of some sales on hard drives to replace a couple of the older drives in my Synology NAS that were out of warranty, movi...
Plex Podcasts feature is amazingly bad
I recently (re?)discovered that the podcast app I use on Android was using an annual subscription model instead of a one-time fee. I’m OK with paying $10-15 ...
Installing miniflux on FreeBSD
After trying to figure out why FreshRSS does not update my feeds as frequently as I expect – it’s supposed to do it every 20min, but my cron jobs every 30min...
Netflix and IPv6 blocks and FreeBSD router
I’ve had issues for several years with mobile devices (particularly iPads) on my home network accessing Netflix. The loading spinner in the Netflix app just ...
Ghost admin and CDN caching
I recently switched from BIND to Unbound for my home network’s caching DNS server (which I should also write a post about), and in the process also simplifie...
Reading Comics Tech
I’ve just recently finally found a good way to get through my backlog of comics in the cbz/cbr format, thought I’d share. Nothing groundbreaking, these tools...
AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate and Chef version
tl;dr - there seems to be a bug using Chef 14 to bootstrap nodes with the current AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate, using Chef 13 works as expected.
Testing Ghost on FreeBSD
Doing some initial testing of the Ghost blogging platform on my FreeBSD test system.
Moving old Adobe CQ/CRX to a new IP address
I thought I’d already blogged about this, but Google says no (or my search-fu is not strong this morning), so here it is for posterity.
Windows 10 and web analytics
I’m very curious how quickly Windows 10 is being adopted. One quick way to get a look at this normally is via web analytics and traffic dashboards for large ...
Windows 10
So Windows 10 started rolling out this past Thursday.
CentOS logrotate with non-standard log folders
I ran into an issue at $WORK today that took more than 5min of Googling to find an answer to, so you get two posts in one day!
VirtualBox with raw disk
Power here (and in most areas around Toronto) has not been great the past week, and my little FreeBSD test server started misbehaving after a brown-out yeste...
Python unbuffered
I came across a new-to-me Python thing today that was astonishingly useful, so thought I’d document it.
New blog face
This blog has a new face!
Transcoding old videos
I have a fairly large pile of old videos I’ve accumulated over the years, and as I’ve been running out of space on my NAS have started looking (again) at tra...
Upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04 - uxlaunch is gone
Late last evening I made the questionable decision to start upgrading my xbmc Ubuntu home theatre box – note: don’t start upgrading anything late on a weekni...
Moving from AWS to Rackspace
I’ve moved my little cloud instance from Amazon AWS to Rackspace, which includes hosting of this blog. It was a simple process, but I thought I’d write a few...
IPv6 on my home network
I decided to finally setup IPv6 on my home network, for now running in parallel with IPv4. My DSL ISP (egate) has had IPv6 support for a long time, I receive...
OpenNMS and WMI, update
About a year ago I wrote a couple of posts about setting up OpenNMS with WMI (part 1, part 2), but until recently we were unable to leave this functionality ...
Ubuntu journaled disk quotas
If you install quota support on current versions of Ubuntu, modify your fstab to add usrquota and/or grpquota options, and run quotacheck, you will get a mes...
OpenNMS and WMI - Part 1, getting started
I’ve setup and used OpenNMS at my last job and my current job, and it works very nicely. One thing I haven’t done until last week, though, is get WMI monitor...
OpenNMS / Ubuntu / network thresholds notifying incorrectly
I’ve been setting up OpenNMS at work, and ran across a problem suitably annoying and obscure that the solution should be recorded for posterity.
Ubuntu jaunty - external monitor annoyance
Just to give equal opportunity to issues I have with Ubuntu, here’s one that bit me today.
Bing, which leads to Silverlight and Moonlight
I’ve started trying the new Bing search engine now that Microsoft has relaunched it as a replacement for Live Search. Bing is WAY better than Live was, but s...
Google Chrome on Ubuntu - not yet auspicious
Just for fun, since I use Google Chrome as my main browser on my Windows desktop now, I decided to try the very first public Dev release of Google Chrome for...
Funny RFCs
Courtesy of Wikipedia, here’s a list of all (?) the humourous RFCs (Internet standards documents).
Irony - had to use Ubuntu to write a Windows 2008 install disc
I have an ISO of Windows 2008 Server and need to burn a disc so I can install it on a bunch of servers at work tomorrow. (mmm, Dell R610s) Yes, we have licen...
TortoiseSVN - lowering TSVNCache utilization
I’m using TortoiseSVN at my current job, and have at several past jobs as well. It’s a pretty good SVN client implementation for Windows, with the usual issu...
Ubuntu snmpd package doesn’t include all net-snmpd modules - grr
After about 1/2hr of trying to figure out why the proc and exec directives don’t work in Ubuntu’s snmpd server (at least in Ubuntu 8.10), I finally found a r...
Multiple Jetty6 containers on Ubuntu 8.04
For a while at $WORK in our Development and QA environments we were running multiple apps within one Jetty6 container. This works well, but isn’t always conv...
Google Chrome
So, Google has released a browser called Chrome. So far it’s only for Windows, and is being called beta, but Gmail is still beta, so whatever.
VirtualBox Additions vs VMware Tools
I recently installed VirtualBox Guest Additions to an Ubuntu Server 8.04.1 VM that’s running the -virtual kernel mentioned in my last post.
Ubuntu Hardy 8.04.1 guest on VirtualBox 1.6.4
I’ve been playing with VirtualBox and have been having an issue getting Ubuntu Hardy 8.04.1 working, specifically that everything installed fine but after re...
Fun with MS errors
I decided to install SQL Server 2008 Express Edition, because I want SQL Server Management Studio Express and figure it can’t hurt to have the whole SQL Serv...
Grails on Ubuntu Hardy
Just for the posterity of the Internet, and because I didn’t find an immediately useful answer when searching with Google…
FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0
There are pending releases of both FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0 coming up – current schedules put 6.3 just before Xmas and 7.0 in mid-January. I’d expect these to sli...
Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) has been released - there are news articles everywhere, even in the mainstream press. I’ve been running the beta for a couple of w...
VMware Server on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty)
Just to increase the Google weight of the page, there are great instructions on how to get current VMware Server running on current Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) on t...
New laptop
I bought a new laptop. I wanted something quite small, but still very powerful. Something with “inner bigness”, if you will. I wanted it small so I could eas...
Sun Java on RedHat and time zones
For future reference, when updating the time zone on a RedHat machine running Sun’s Java it is not sufficient to update /etc/localtime, you also have to upda...
Telus cel porn
So Telus is selling porn on cel phones. Apparently some people have problems with this. I’m not entirely sure what the basis of Tod’s objection is, I’ve left...
WordPress doesn’t do DST?
Just noticed that WordPress has a setting under Options for offset from GMT, but for some reason doesn’t seem to understand DST (unless I missed that). So th...
iTunes CPU usage while downloading
So, what’s with iTunes 7 using craploads of CPU while downloading on my Mac?
qbemail.pdf
Ok, what the hell is with QuickBooks and it’s qbemail.pdf files?