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  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. […]

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Equipment teardowns

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

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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 […]

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Speed!

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.

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June rocks

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 […]

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Operations reading list

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 […]

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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, […]

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Balcony plant waterer

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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