Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2016
The Anaconda 19 (now v21) installer in RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 is a great improvement over Anaconda 13 that was used in CentOS 6. Among other fixes it was completely overhauled along the way. One thing lacking in CentOS 6 was the ability to perform an automatic kickstart installation over an IPv6-only network. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 31st, 2016
A quick list of equipment tear downs and photographs I’ve done for people who are interested in the internals: Comtrend CT-5374 DSL modem+router Ubiquiti EdgeRouter-X Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite (ERL3) including how to replace USB memory stick MikroTik CRS226-24G-2S+RM switch SGI Fuel
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 1st, 2016
For the longest time I wondered why Chrome would never save the password of my Ubiquiti UniFi controllers’ web interfaces. It turns out because the UniFi controller software ships out of the box with a self-signed SSL/TLS cert that’s untrusted, Chrome does a smart thing and won’t prompt you to save the password for the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 4th, 2015
My old dedicated server is quite old and ass slow. I finally got around to moving my website elsewhere running Nginx+HHVM, and now it’s tolerable once again! I can finally enforce 100% https without killing the CPU.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 1st, 2015
June was such an exciting month and the good news over summer keeps getting better: People finally wise up and take down the Confederate flag (the “rebel flag” where I grew up) The US Supreme Court allows gay marriage (whether or not they hijacked diplomacy is another thing) ESA’s Philae comet lander makes contact with Rosetta […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2015
I love books. These days I buy most of my books for Kindle, but I still buy paper for books I really like and want to keep around. Tech books are notorious for being obsolete a couple of years after printing, but there are still several timeless books I use for reference and would recommend […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 9th, 2014
In honor of xkcd 979, I’m posting this so future generations of Courier-IMAP users won’t have to Bing for a solution in vain (and hit lots of useless advice). In the process of finally getting around to upgrading my 2008-era courier-imap 4.1.1 setup to the shiny new 4.15 hotness and putting things in Chef templates, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 20th, 2014
I finally reached a critical mass of various plants, flowers, and succulents on my apartment balcony that required multiple trips to the sink when I needed to water them. While browsing the hardware store I was eyeing the garden drip irrigation systems and thought why not? Originally I wanted to use some sort of a […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 21st, 2014
I’ve been late to the game of nerding out on the telephone network and phreaking in general and it’s been fun browsing over old maps. I was browsing the “Central section” microwave map on the AT&T Long Lines Places and Routes website and was surprised to see my home town, Kinta, on the map. I […]
Posted in opentsdb, Uncategorized on Apr 6th, 2014
Over a recent couple of weekends I built a thing to measure the current and voltage of the components of a 12V solar/PV power system. Ever since I started using solar power at Burning Man I wanted to get a good measure of how much I was consuming and how much was left. At the […]
