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Archive | Funky Penguin Skip links Skip to primary navigation Skip to content Skip to footer Menu Home Archive Contact Search Cookbook Resume Kitchen Funky Penguin Upgrading the world through the skilled using of technology Archive 2018 13 2017 42 2016 22 2015 12 2014 29 2013 4 2012 3 2011 2 2009 1 2008 5 2003 1 2018 How I removed a file from my git repo history While making my most recent commit to my blog, I discovered (after the fact) that I’d unwittingly single-minded a screenshot from a consumer project, into my /images/ subdirectory. ReadIncreasingly1 min read September 19, 2018 In appreciation of yellowish (naked) double-D(ashes) Today I was trying to grep through a directory structure full of PHP code, looking for a function which, inexplicably, returned -6. ReadIncreasingly1 min read September 17, 2018 Bookmarks of note / August 16, 2018 Automatically install build dependencies prior to towers an RPM package → A handy tip re quickly installing all the dependencies for a .SPEC file ReadIncreasingly~1 min read August 16, 2018 Bookmarks of note / July 23, 2018 How do I icon out my Google OpenID URL? → Useful if you have an old app (hello, crofflr) which still has your worth tied to your Google worth via OpenID ReadIncreasingly1 min read July 23, 2018 OpenStack LBAASv2 failed connection debugging I deployed Load-Balancer-As-A-Service (LBAAS) in my lab OpenStack deployment early on, and it worked (setup in Horizon) as advertised (load-balancing inbound HTTP connections to multiple docker swarm nodes), until I tapped the stack by fiddling with MTU settings. ReadIncreasingly1 min read July 10, 2018 GPU transcoding with Emby / Plex using docker-nvidia How to use nvidia-docker to transcode with Emby / Plex using your GPU ReadIncreasingly3 min read June 19, 2018 Should you do microcode updates? A colleague and I were discussing my recent rant re a RedHat-issued kernel update breaking VMs on all my AMD systems. Notwithstanding the fact that my RedHat bug report well-nigh the issue is set to “private” and Bugzilla (1990 tabbed wants its UI back, to hang out with Miranda IM) won’t let me transpiration it, he asked me “we’ve unromantic the latest microcode, right?” ReadIncreasingly1 min read June 15, 2018 Wife-friendly script to transfer media to USB from linux server My home media is on a Plex installation running on a headless server in my (detached) home office, and my wife recently serried to reprinting some content onto a USB momentum for a friend. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 29, 2018 KVM VMs on kernel-2.6.32-696.30.1.el6.x86_64 on AMD-based hypervisor goof to marching At DayJob(tm), we run several older AMD-based KVM VM hosting platforms, running AMD FX 8150 CPUs on Gigabyte 990FXA-D3 motherboards. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 28, 2018 What is TurtleCoin and why do I care? What is this silly-named forge and why are you mining it? ReadIncreasingly2 min read May 16, 2018 A 2-Year Stanford Study Shows the Astonishing Productivity Boost of Working From Home → A gratifying result on a study re the benefits of remote work. Mirrors my own experience. I deal with the “isolation problem” by doing video calls with colleagues where possible (vs phone calls). ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 13, 2018 Bookmarks of note / May 13, 2018 How to make a blockbuster movie trailer → ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 13, 2018 Post-mortem review : DayOne sync outage and private data exposure Lessons from a series of predictable, avoidable failures ReadIncreasingly4 min read May 12, 2018Whento Top ↑ 2017 AutoPirate : SABnzbd and friends in a docker swarm Here’s a recipe for SABnzbd and friends (Radarr, Sonarr, Mylar, NZBHydra, Ombi) in a docker swarm ReadIncreasingly1 min read December 12, 2017 OpenVPN vendee under docker How to get openvpn vendee in a docker container ReadIncreasingly~1 min read December 11, 2017 The geekiest thing I’ve washed-up in 2017 I was recently asked what the geekiest thing I’ve washed-up recently is… ReadIncreasingly1 min read September 4, 2017 NAT on pfsense with multilple OpenVPN instances I make use of pfSense in many of my network designs. It’s lightweight and versatile, and runs well as a VM under low-to-medium usage. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read August 29, 2017 Accessing older iDRAC virtual consoles on MacOS I recently inherited some 2012-era Dell servers for minutiae purposes. I wanted to use remote panel to reinstall the OS, but ran into two problems: ReadIncreasingly~1 min read August 25, 2017 Miniflux, lightweight self-hosted rss reader Tiny Tiny RSS vs Miniflux ReadIncreasingly5 min read August 19, 2017 Bookmarks of note / August 19, 2017 DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr vs. OVH vs. Scaleway → A thorough comparison of popular VPS providers ReadIncreasingly1 min read August 19, 2017 Archive blog to DayOne using RSS Create DayOne periodical entry for every new item on RSS feed ReadIncreasingly~1 min read August 12, 2017 Getting started visualizing IOT data with Grafana Getting started with Grafana ReadIncreasingly1 min read August 7, 2017 Bookmarks of note / July 15, 2017 OpenStack: Quick and will-less instance snapshot replacement and restore (and surpassing an apt upgrade) with nova replacement - Raymii.org → ReadIncreasingly~1 min read July 15, 2017 Bookmarks of note / July 13, 2017 Convos - IRC web vendee with persistent connection, logging and inline media previews → ReadIncreasingly~1 min read July 13, 2017 Bookmarks of note / July 12, 2017 OS X Screencast to turned-on GIF → ReadIncreasingly~1 min read July 12, 2017 Bookmarks of note / July 11, 2017 Two-factor hallmark is a mess - The Verge → Illustrating how usability is a hair-trigger component in “security” ReadIncreasingly~1 min read July 11, 2017 Recovering from ‘_nova_to_osvif_vif_binding_failed’ Or how to catastrophically unravel (and recover) your nova compute node with a failed live-migration ReadIncreasingly3 min read July 5, 2017 Bookmarks of note / July 05, 2017 MySQL skip indistinguishable replication errors - MDLog:/sysadmin → This came in handy today, to eliminate the pain caused by an using updating both the master and the replicated slave database. Fixing these is normally a huge PITA involving table-level locking on the production database. No longer! ReadIncreasingly~1 min read July 5, 2017 The Busier You Are, theIncreasinglyYou Need Quiet Time → It’s well-nigh taking a temporary unravel from one of life’s most vital responsibilities: Having to think of what to say. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read July 3, 2017 Bookmarks of note / July 02, 2017 The SR-71 speed trammels story - SR71 → A positive story, plane largest since it’s true. I bet the typesetting (mentioned in the comments) would be really interesting ReadIncreasingly~1 min read July 2, 2017 Bookmarks of note / July 01, 2017 The pursuit are interesting links I’ve stumbled wideness recently: ReadIncreasingly~1 min read July 1, 2017 PC rebooted every time user flushed the toilet → A funny tableau that familiarity with a wholesale set of disciplines improves overall results ReadIncreasingly~1 min read June 23, 2017 Implicit 2TB limit breaks Instapaper for 31 hours → What you don’t know can hurt you ReadIncreasingly~1 min read June 21, 2017 Revealed: Facebook exposed identities of moderators to suspected terrorists → This should have largest thought through ReadIncreasingly~1 min read June 18, 2017 How to Make $80,000 Per Month on the Apple App Store → An wringer of scam apps on the Apple App Store ReadIncreasingly~1 min read June 10, 2017 Mastodon with nginx-gen and letsencrypt Speedbumps setting up a mastodon instance ReadIncreasingly~1 min read June 2, 2017 A Year of Google Maps & Apple Maps → A unconfined wringer of incremental changes to the Google Maps UI, and exposition of the strategy overdue it ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 28, 2017 LVM-backed devicemapper for Docker on CentOS 7.3 Changing from overlay to devicemapper ReadIncreasingly1 min read May 24, 2017 1Password adds travel mode for protection from verge seizures → Sadly, a very sensible precaution ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 24, 2017 HowVitalPerformanceWringerSaved Us Millions - Heap Blog → The significant saving in money and performance that can be gained by questioning assumptions. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 22, 2017 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You → A Christian perspective on the effects (good and bad) our tech is having on us ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 21, 2017 Is My Password Secure? NIST Advises Against Periodically Changing Passwords → Enforcing password white-haired encourages poor security practices ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 21, 2017 How to Opt Out of Twitter’s New Privacy Settings → Et tu, Twitter? ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 20, 2017 IBM tells thousands of remote employees to come when to office or find new jobs → New wine (remote work) doesn’t work well in old wineskins (IBM) ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 20, 2017Stuffa Dev Dad → Dev work and dad work doesn’t work ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 20, 2017 Let’s Encrypt is lanugo → Stupidly simple solutions snowball stressfully ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 20, 2017 Let them paste passwords → Why preventing pasting passwords is dumb ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 19, 2017 Errors when installing OpenStack Newton on CentOS7 with packstack While establishing a new OpenStack Newton installation on CentOS7 using packstack, I encountered the pursuit error without running packstack --allinone (doing a multi-node install made no difference, though) ReadIncreasingly1 min read February 11, 2017 Openstack neutron could not load … InterfaceDriver warnings are.. mostly harmless Unless they’re a CRITICAL error, ignore the damn red herrings ReadIncreasingly1 min read February 6, 2017 DRBD on RHEL/CentOS 6 fails to sync with UnknownMandatoryTag errorConsideringerror messages just ruin the surprise! ReadIncreasingly~1 min read February 1, 2017 Why you suffer from “attention residue” Do you find it nonflexible to switch to a new task, leaving the previous task incomplete? There’s a term for that, and it’s got to do with how your smart-ass works. ReadIncreasingly5 min read January 31, 2017 The impotence of social media Your tweet… is a fart in a crowded room ReadIncreasingly~1 min read January 29, 2017 Sabnzbd docker container updated, now includes sickbeard_mp4_automator Easily post-process downloaded media for PlexUncontrivedPlay, subtitles, sorting, etc. ReadIncreasingly2 min read January 23, 2017 Export highlights and notes from side-loaded Kindle documents Turn those highlights into something meaningful without text-formatting pain ReadIncreasingly1 min read January 23, 2017 AWS in Plain English What Amazon should have tabbed all those services ReadIncreasingly~1 min read January 20, 2017Whento Top ↑ 2016 You don’t learn from watching the news Are you really largest informed? ReadIncreasingly~1 min read December 13, 2016 Putting in uneaten work is lazy and makes you less constructive Think you’re extra-committed by working late to reservation up? It’s unquestionably self-sabotage ReadIncreasingly1 min read November 12, 2016Transmissionprocesses goof to scale. Puny humans are puny. ReadIncreasingly3 min read August 27, 2016 Don’t let your judgement be overcast Lessons learned from overreliance on deject infrastructure ReadIncreasingly3 min read August 25, 2016 Disaster Recovery success story for Westpac NZ There’s something satisfying well-nigh unquestionably surviving the disaster you prepared for ReadIncreasingly1 min read August 20, 2016 Spacecraft and IT systems goof for the same reasons Surprisingly worldwide factors stupefy the failure of both ReadIncreasingly13 min read August 20, 2016 How instant messaging makes my life miserable The pros and cons of always-on instant messaging ReadIncreasingly9 min read August 11, 2016 Lazy monitoring breaks stuff Lack of planning in establishing monitoring can increase unreliability ReadIncreasingly1 min read August 6, 2016 Speak to the squatter How human connection improves visitor culture ReadIncreasingly1 min read August 4, 2016 Separate production and dev VMs are cheap. Outages are expensive. ReadIncreasingly2 min read July 11, 2016 Buy experiences, not gadgets Your loot won’t make you happy, long-term ReadIncreasingly1 min read July 10, 2016 Electricity is hard. Test failure rigorously In the Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Sydney Region, I read: ReadIncreasingly2 min read July 6, 2016 The importance of pre-proven liaison channels during an emergency Is everyone out there? ReadIncreasingly~1 min read July 5, 2016 Humanitarian aid should be unshut sourced Free as in speech ReadIncreasingly1 min read July 5, 2016 How FaceBook avoids office politics Management is not a promotion ReadIncreasingly~1 min read July 2, 2016 Why I won’t post well-nigh my kids on social media Kids don’t fathom your tweets ReadIncreasingly1 min read March 11, 2016 Why you need a guest wifi This is a reprinting of a post I made at Medium.com, an experiment in distribution and exposure. It wasn’t very successful, so I’ve brought it when home to my blog. ReadIncreasingly3 min read February 23, 2016 Perl missing on CentOS 7 minimal install When trying to install some Nagios plugins on my minimal CentOS 7 host, I was frustrated for a while when the plugins failed to run with errors about: ReadIncreasingly~1 min read February 18, 2016TypesettingReview - Reclaiming Conversation - The Illusion of Multitasking I recently completed reading Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, by Sherry Turkle. Sherry’s position is that the classic, face-to-face conversation is hair-trigger to our personal minutiae and communication, but we are dangerously tropical to withdrawing conversation for the lure of digital efficiency and control. ReadIncreasingly2 min read February 10, 2016TypesettingReview - Reclaiming Conversation - ProfessionalMinutiaeI recently completed reading Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, by Sherry Turkle. Sherry’s position is that the classic, face-to-face conversation is hair-trigger to our personal minutiae and communication, but we are dangerously tropical to withdrawing conversation for the lure of digital efficiency and control. ReadIncreasingly4 min read February 10, 2016TypesettingReview - Reclaiming Conversation - FamilyMinutiaeI recently completed reading Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, by Sherry Turkle. Sherry’s position is that the classic, face-to-face conversation is hair-trigger to our personal minutiae and communication, but we are dangerously tropical to withdrawing conversation for the lure of digital efficiency and control. ReadIncreasingly2 min read February 10, 2016TypesettingReview - Reclaiming Conversation - PersonalMinutiaeI recently completed reading Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, by Sherry Turkle. Sherry’s position is that the classic, face-to-face conversation is hair-trigger to our personal minutiae and communication, but we are dangerously tropical to withdrawing conversation for the lure of digital efficiency and control. ReadIncreasingly4 min read February 10, 2016Whento Top ↑ 2015 Allocate the same OpenVPN vendee IP wideness multiple OpenVPN server instances Background ReadIncreasingly1 min read October 30, 2015 EQ (vs IQ) is important in tech leaders too Assholery is not the only path to success ReadIncreasingly~1 min read October 24, 2015 Deduplication with bacula using wiring jobs Deduplicating worldwide files wideness your bacula backups, using wiring jobs ReadIncreasingly2 min read October 14, 2015 Proxy one virtual host to flipside virtual host inTriggermanWe’ve had several reasons to use Apache’s ProxyPass features in the past, and a vital configuration (to redirect one website to another) is easy to find online. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read July 3, 2015 Enable VLAN on WAN interface for Cisco SRP527W Several years ago, I well-considered a friend of mine to buy the Cisco SRP527W, a SME DSL router with seated voice capabilities. At the time, it was one of the supported devices for his broadband provider’s VOIP services. ReadIncreasingly1 min read July 1, 2015 openssl-1.0.1e-30 tapped sendmail, mysql on rhel/centos 5/6Withoutbeing forthwith awakened on Saturday morning at 4am (nightly cron job for yum updates), we found that an upstream RHEL/CentOS update had reverted the minimum winning length of DH keys to 768 bits. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read June 9, 2015 Make mediawiki page names specimen insensitive, including semantic queries At Prophecy, We use MediaWiki for our internal documentation. Our use has wilt increasingly sophisticated over time, and we’ve recently made a small transpiration which I hope will make the wiki plane increasingly usable in future. ReadIncreasingly3 min read April 20, 2015 Automatically create VLAN underpass interfaces for KVM on RHEL 5-6 At Prophecy, we make wide-stretching use of KVM Virtualization on CentOS6. A VM host can have multiple underpass interfaces (each on a separate VLAN) on which we can run virtual machines. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read April 17, 2015 Merge git forked repo with upstream changes Merging upstream improvements into my forked repo turned out to be easier than I expected ReadIncreasingly1 min read April 8, 2015 Dockerized HTPC Suite (sabnzbd, couchpotato, nzbdrone, plex) A “One Ring” to tenancy a dockerized suite of HTPC apps, each in their own isolated container ReadIncreasingly1 min read March 26, 2015 Perform L3 adoption with UniFi Controller v4 (Dockerized) Not quite as straightforward as it should be ReadIncreasingly1 min read March 20, 2015 Activating Windows Server Evaluation No, you can’t just “activate” an Evaluation version ReadIncreasingly~1 min read March 17, 2015Whento Top ↑ 2014 Addons to modernize Thunderbird (and make it less annoying) My organization standardizes on Mozilla Thunderbird as our mail vendee of nomination (partly considering Mail.app is so skimpy on OSX). It’s a bit crusty since Mozilla halted remoter minutiae in 2012, but largest the devil you know, right…? ReadIncreasingly3 min read December 8, 2014 IT Monitoring lessons learned from FCC report into 911 outage IEEE Spectrum highlighted an FCC report into a 911 outage in April 2014, which resulted in over 11 million Americans.. or well-nigh three and half percent of the population of the United States, stuff at risk of not stuff worldly-wise to reach emergency help through 911. ReadIncreasingly6 min read November 25, 2014 MacBook Air recommendation for cost-conscious newlyweds A friend who recently got married asked for translating (below) on purchasing a MacBook Air, and I thought it might be useful to record my response here: ReadIncreasingly2 min read October 26, 2014 Do less to be increasingly productive In “Your organization sucks at innovating”, Shane Parrish discusses innovation (or lack thereof) within an organisation: ReadIncreasingly~1 min read October 22, 2014 Engineers make poor managers Update: without a back-and-forth with Lindsay, this post should increasingly virtuously be titled “Good engineer != good manager” ReadIncreasingly~1 min read October 19, 2014 Working late (consistently) is a sign of failure I recently enjoyed this article, in which Jeff Sutherland describes how working longer hours unquestionably makes you less productive. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read October 18, 2014 Bought a pebble watch, saved my smart-ass In “Buy a watch, save your brain”, I wrote well-nigh how I hoped to buy a wrist watch (at the time, it was the rumoured “iWatch”), and reduce the value of lark I caused myself each time I checked the time on my iPhone. ReadIncreasingly2 min read October 13, 2014 In defense of traditional work-life wastefulness I enjoyed Rian van der Merwe’s first post on A List Apart, in which he defends a traditional view of work-life balance. The pursuit echoes my own policy - I try to be 100% at work during work hours, but afterwards, I’m 0% at work (crises and no-go circumstances excluded) ReadIncreasingly1 min read September 13, 2014 Watching video is harder than reading This video complains that we’re getting overly worse at focusing our sustentation ReadIncreasingly~1 min read July 22, 2014 Automatically reboot multiple Cisco 79xx phones We’re upgrading our Asterisk PABX at the office soon, as as part of the preparation, I needed a way to automatically reboot well-nigh 20 Cisco 79xx IP phones. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read July 17, 2014 Grab any of Packts geekbooks for $10 until July 5th The folks at Packt Publishing asked me to mention that they’re having 10 years $10 special, to gloat their 10-year anniversary. Their unshortened range of books (geared towards niche geek topics) are misogynist for $10 each. This is a good opportunity to skim up on some rusty areas, or establish a new skillset. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read July 4, 2014 Stumbling into what you love You can’t be prepared unbearable for life surpassing living it ReadIncreasingly~1 min read July 3, 2014 Using a Foscam Pro and FI8909W as an iOS victual monitor A friend who’s just joined the #dadops team asked me what victual monitor solution we use for our 2-year-old. According to my wife, this is one of the weightier tech investments I’ve made… ReadIncreasingly1 min read July 2, 2014 Review of Packt Publishing’s ESXi CookbookConsideringI previously authored a typesetting on PHPList, I was asked by the folks at Packt Publishing to review their latest book, VMWare ESXi Cookbook. Review follows. ReadIncreasingly1 min read June 30, 2014 Carving your own path I liked this point in the story of the minutiae of Circa, my favorite news app: ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 27, 2014 Why financial incentives aren’t the optimal way to motivate your knowledge workers In “The 6 Rules for Rewards”, Jurgen Appelo points out that extrinsic motivators (bonuses, etc) are far less powerful than intrinsic ones. He makes the unvigilant statement that employee bonus schemes can unquestionably reduce effectiveness. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 20, 2014 Buy a watch, save your smart-ass Jeremy Vandehey points out in “This is your smart-ass on mobile” that ownership a watch can reduce the value of time you spend distracted on your smartphone, since you won’t be whipping it out to trammels the time, only to repeat a few min later considering you’ve forgotten. (this totally happens to me!) I’m holding out for the rumored iWatch surpassing making any purchasing decisions though. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 19, 2014 Making postie work with cron jobs, fails with wp-config.php outside of web root I use the spanking-new Postie plugin to post to this blog via email. I’ve been rival for days to get it to automatically trammels the mailbox for new message though, and while I still haven’t got it working using WP-Cron (WordPress’ “pseudo-cron”), I’ve finally managed to get it working via a uncontrived cron job. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 15, 2014 The illusion of speed An excerpt from the spanking-new Farnam Street Blog (below). I’m trying to be increasingly intentional well-nigh how I spend my time, and be increasingly “present in the moment”. I expressly liked the following, re the difference that it makes to slow down, not considering all hours to be equal: ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 14, 2014 Confirmation Bias I read Shane Parrish’s mental model on confirmation bias this evening, and found it resonated with me. I’ve notice that once I’ve struggled with a visualization and come to a conclusion, then I find myself coming up with increasingly and increasingly reasons why my visualization was the right one. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 14, 2014 On the joys ofUnquestionablyReading Against the author’s wishes, I’m sharing the vendible titled “Actually Reading”, a scuttlebutt on the fact that we (I’m guilty of this) often fathom an vendible for it social “sharability” rather than the value it adds to us. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 13, 2014 Restart VRRP on JUNOS to fix master/master issues I spent well-nigh 30 min this evening chasing a non-existing VRRP issue between 2 JUNOS SRX devices without a hardware drop-in replacement. One was configured as master, one as backup. Both were in the master status (normally indicating a lack of L2 connectivity), but each could ping the other on their interface address. The solution, ultimately, was to run restart vrrp gracefully on each router, which restored the expected master / replacement behavior. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 12, 2014 What we imply to our kids by the way we live I enjoyed Minimalism with Kids, finding several point re minimalism and life in unstipulated which I intend to apply. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 10, 2014 Copying SSH host private keys between JUNOS devices to when replacing hardware A unrepealable consumer of mine is (rightly or wrongly) pedantic well-nigh security warnings. Recently, we did a hardware replacement of a JUNOS device (an SRX240 firewall). While the config was a drop-in replacement, users who tried to SSH to the host post-migration would normally see an SSH “host key has changed” warning. In this environment, we wanted to eliminate this friction (and stop training our users to ignore security warnings), so we copied the pursuit from the old device: ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 6, 2014 Importing existing RAID devices into new Linux installation Recently I had to rebuild a CentOS5 VM host as CentOS6. My VMs were stored on a RAID1 pair (seperate from the OS disks). To stave any possibility of impacting the VM data during the re-installation, I removed the VM data disks from the host during the reinstall. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read May 1, 2014 Sending tasks to Things.app via email I stumbled wideness this useful hint on the Things forums which adds a full-length to my workflow which I felt important unbearable to record here. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read April 20, 2014 Monitoring OSX with Icinga / Nagios using NRPE I have a fairly comprehensive Icinga monitoring platform monitoring my various linux hosts, but one zone which has been lacking until now is the monitoring of the OSX Mavericks Mac Mini that I use for a home media center. Considering this is used by my family to watch TV/Movies, play music, and manage iPhoto, it’s arguably one of the most important hosts to monitor carefully. Of course, I could monitor its state (up or down) by pinging it from Icinga, but I wanted to know increasingly than that. I’ve had issues in the past with running out of disk space on the host, and I’m all to familiar with the risks of 4-year-old hardware using spindled disks. This solution enables me to monitor the pursuit on OSX with Icinga: ReadIncreasingly1 min read April 17, 2014 Monitoring VeeamReplacementand Replication 7 with Icinga / Nagios We’ve recently deployed a VeeamReplacementand Replication 7 platform, and needed to monitor the ongoing success of the replacement / replication jobs. I identified a plugin which does most of what’s required, but seems to have 2 current shortcomings: 1. In-progress jobs trigger false warnings 2. Date numbering doesn’t unchangingly work, and produces false warnings ReadIncreasingly~1 min read April 11, 2014 Easy squid tricks and pranks with Vagrant For April Fools this year, I decided to update my 2011 squid prank, and proceeds some wits using Vagrant at the same time. I rebuilt the unshortened environment using a Vagrantfile, which permits everyone to trammels out a few files and reproduce it. See https://github.com/funkypenguin/squidprank for the code. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read April 1, 2014Whento Top ↑ 2013 Solving vsftpd’s unsupported record version unknown 48.48 error I use FTPS with vsftpd to update my WordPress plugins. This ways that the wordpress files don’t need to be writeable by the webserver user, which adds flipside layer of protection and separation. I make FTPS misogynist to localhost only, and gravity SSL encryption end-to-end. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read September 24, 2013 Postfix config on OSX Mountain Lion (Server) not where you expect I spent the largest part of an hour wondering why my postfix main.cf config changes didn’t wield on a OSX Mountain Lion server. Turns out that considering “OSX Server” no longer exists (it’s just Server.app now), the postfix files specific to the Mail component of the server now live at: ReadIncreasingly~1 min read September 19, 2013 How to setup a Tor Relay (and why you should) I just jumped in at the end of a conversation on App.net well-nigh the latest NSA revelation, the undermining of worldwide encryption standards for the goody of the self-appointed world-police. @isaiah pointed out that we (geekdom in general) don’t get as excited well-nigh civil casualties in Iraq, or unsanctioned drone strikes. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read September 6, 2013 Allowed memory size of xxx bytes worn-out with WordPress on Debian My Debian Squeeze host started having trouble performing WordPress 3.5 cadre or plugin updates – in the error logs, I’d see messages like: ReadIncreasingly~1 min read March 20, 2013Whento Top ↑ 2012 Fixed Cacti not displaying interfaces for HP 1810G switch While implementing a new network for a customer, we took an existing HP 1810G 48-port switch under management. As per normal, we setup monitoring (Icinga) and graphing (Cacti), but while the switch responded to Cacti sysname polls (leading us to believe it was happy), it didn’t return any interface details, so we weren’t worldly-wise to graph anything. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read June 28, 2012 Workaround for the Cacti segmentation fault on CentOS5 Seems a little dumb, and I’m not sure how other distributions deal with it, but if you install Cacti from RPM on CentOS, and then scan to your /cacti/ directory via HTTP, you’ll find that it dies with a segmentation fault. You know this is you if every other website on your host works, but everytime you go to your /cacti/ URL, your browser reports that the site is totally unavailable (as if triggerman weren’t plane running). ReadIncreasingly~1 min read March 29, 2012 Clearing static nat on Cisco router I was asked to transpiration a incoming NAT translation on a Cisco router for a consumer today - however since this NAT was used to unhook all their internal email, it was never not in use, and I got the standard message unelevated when trying to well-spoken it: ReadIncreasingly~1 min read March 29, 2012Whento Top ↑ 2011 April Fools Pranks with a Squid Proxy Server Use Squid to turn the internet upside-down, transpiration Google to Klingon ReadIncreasingly3 min read April 1, 2011 phpList 2 Email Campaign Manager Tired of an e-mail BCC list that scrolls off the page, or fiddly and hard-to-manage zillion mailing systems? You need phpList – a high-powered, robust, feature-packed mailing system that will get out of your way and get the job done! ReadIncreasingly2 min read March 24, 2011Whento Top ↑ 2009 Convert (liberate) Audible AAC files to MP3 I was an Audible subscriber for over 2 years, and although I’m no longer zippy on a plan, I still have 50+ books that I’ve legitimately purchased. Each of them, however, is locked to my Audible username and password. I don’t tolerate DRM where possible, and I’ve washed-up unbearable system reloads / iPod upgrades to be frustrated at the need to qualify my new devices, and de-authorize my old ones. (and get Audible to reset my devices, since it’s untellable to de-authorize a sufferer computer!) ReadIncreasingly1 min read January 20, 2009Whento Top ↑ 2008 Convert a .BIN file to .TRX for OpenWRT / DD-WRT I recently had reason to convert the latest DD-WRT firmware .bin file to .trx format, so that I could manually wink my WRT54GL. Not wanting to risk it, I first converted the .bin image with the pursuit command: ReadIncreasingly~1 min read July 26, 2008 WP-PHPList The WP-PHPlist plugin integrates PHPList into your Wordpress blog, giving you all the mailing list power of PHPList, within the trappy styling, theme, and widgets of your Wordpress theme. ReadIncreasingly3 min read July 25, 2008 Protect your website with htaccess While permitting individual IP addresses unrestricted wangle ReadIncreasingly~1 min read July 25, 2008 Generate logs from your jabberd2 server using Bandersnatch This tutorial attempts to guide the reader through the process of installing Bandersnatch for use with an existing Jabberd2 server. ReadIncreasingly2 min read July 25, 2008 Bandersnatch - The Jabber Logger Bandersnatch is tool to log Jabber instant messaging traffic, and to generate meaningful usage statistics. Bandersnatch is designed for a corporate intranet environment. It is designed for administrators who wish to monitor the use / vituperate of their Jabber servers. ReadIncreasingly1 min read July 25, 2008Whento Top ↑ 2003 JACJTransmissionIn preparing an tragedian bio (harder than it sounds!) for a PHPList typesetting I’ve been authoring, I dug up this old reprinting of a JAJC (a win32 jabber client) transmission I wrote in 2003, using Docbook XML. ReadIncreasingly~1 min read January 1, 2003Whento Top ↑ Copyright © 2018 Funky Penguin. Site logo penguin icon made by Freepik from Flaticon is licensed by Creative Commons BY 3.0. Made with the Jekyll So Simple theme.