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...
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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...
Azure CLI VM quick commands
A few quick commands for Azure CLI to do stuff with virtual machines, so I don’t have to try and remember them…
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...
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...
One Apache config for multiple environments
Today I added on to a bit of Apache configuration I wrote several years ago and was impressed by how past me had done it, so thought I’d write a blog post.
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 ...
Removing Hyper-V from Windows 10
Hyper-V is pretty cool, and I enjoyed playing with it, especially in conjunction with Ubuntu’s Multipasstool. However, once I finished playing with it – I ha...
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...
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.
CQ / AEM - reverting HTTP service config
Ran into an issue today that I couldn’t quickly find a useful fix for with Google, so here it is for posterity.
Managing Email
Over almost 30 years using email at work I’ve gathered a few habits to ensure that I see email as it comes in, reply quickly, and can find messages later. In...
Testing Ghost on FreeBSD
Doing some initial testing of the Ghost blogging platform on my FreeBSD test system.
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!
TeamCity and git and overlapping branches
Ran into an intersting edge case at work today with TeamCity’s git functionality that was fairly obscure, but Googling provided no useful information so I’ll...
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...
Adobe CQ Tar PM data file rotation bug
At $WORK this week we encountered an extremely strange and annoying set of bugs in older versions of the Adobe CQ CMS system – specifically, in all CQ system...
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...
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...
Tiny Tiny RSS
In my last post I was thinking about what to do now that Google Reader is headed for end-of-life. As a quick interim step, I installed Liferea on my Ubuntu d...
Git and libcurl with older OpenSSL connecting to newer OpenSSL - error 1112
There’s an interesting edge condition we ran into at work last week around git connecting to a repo over HTTPS.
Changing Ubuntu Server 12.04 console video mode
I’m running Ubuntu Server 12.04 as a virtual machine on my high-res work laptop, and got tired of the tiny 640x480 console window, so tried to figure out how...
Changing network settings in VMWare Fusion 3.1.x
Recently had to Google this, so here’s some more juice for the search engines to help others find it faster.
JMX java.lang naming between Windows and Linux (and a bit of OpenNMS)
I’ve been banging my head against something here at work, so thought I’d post the solution up on the Interwebs to hopefully prevent cranial trauma for others.
Apache unexpectedly adding Vary: Host header to requests
So, I’ve been banging my head against an issue where Apache was unexpectedly adding the Vary: Host HTTP header to responses for certain requests. Unfortunate...
Powershell and WMI, redux
About a year ago I posted some tricks for pulling information about WMI counters on Windows using the Powershell command line tools.
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...
System.Net tracing
I was trying to troubleshoot an intermittent issue with a .NET application connecting to vsftpd on a Linux box today. The issue is that the .NET application ...
Ubuntu - rssh - sftp only, with chroot
Here’s how to setup rssh on Ubuntu, to allow sftp only with a chroot directory. Note that these instructions are for Ubuntu Server 9.04 x64, other versions m...
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...
Powershell and WMI
I’ve been working a fair bit with WMI on Windows servers, in particular pulling out performance counters (will shortly be putting up another post about OpenN...
Cacti - Graph 16 CPUs for one Windows machine
We have some nice new machines at work, Dell R610 boxes with dual quad-core CPUs. These CPUs also have hyperthreading, so the OS sees 16 cores. We’re running...
Connecting to MSSQL clusters from a NAT’ed VM
So, as noted in my previous post, I’ve changed from running Vista on my work laptop to running Ubuntu and Windows 7 in a VM.
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...
Solaris 10 x86 - updating boot device
Recently at work I had a situation where I had to move a Solaris 10 x86 virtual machine from a VMware Server environment to a VMware ESXi environment. Unfort...
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...
PHP4 to PHP5 - fun with echo
Found a legacy web site at work today running on PHP4. As the PHP folks no longer support version 4, I started testing the site on PHP5 to prep it for migrat...
Wordpress code/pre tags
More things for posterity, as I had to search several times to find what I wanted…
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…
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...
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...