Posted on in Networking
For those that are really into privacy, the Privacy Extensions defined in RFC 4941 are a really good thing. This extension circumvents SLAAC and has the result of randomizing your IPv6 address. Like I said, if privacy is a big deal for you, this is definitely something you want enabled …
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It is well-documented that I am a heavy Google user. I use Gmail and Google Docs for just about everything. Additionally, I have used an Android phone since I got the HTC Dream (AKA T-Mobile G1) when it first came out.
However, I have been using OS X full-time since …
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Although I use Git all day long, I actually prefer to use Mercurial for my personal stuff. When I started working on this project to maintain slaptijack.com with Pelican rather than continuing to use Wordpress, one of the things that really interested me was the ability to keep Markdown …
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Out of the box, Magento has four methods available for storing session data: filesystem, database, memcached, and tmpfs. The default method is to store session information in the filesystem. I believe that storing sessions in Redis is actually superior to all of the aforementioned methods. Each of the four default …
Posted on in Programming
This is was my next project.
Update: For now I've solved this problem by using FeedWordPress to pull the Atom feed for the Pelican-specific portion of the website.
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Posted on in Software
I've been using WordPress on this site since 2007. After all this time, I've decided I want to try something new. So, I've decided to go in a completely different direction and start serving static content. There are three things driving my decision to change:
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Posted on in Programming
Sometimes this pops up when you least expect it:
Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo.
This morning, I went to refresh one of my git repo's for work, and make spit
that out. What the heck happened last night? Anyway, the …
Posted on in IT Management
Below is the list of books I have needed for my MBA.
Posted on in System Administration
I recently ran into an issue on a Wordpress site running behind an nginx web
server. The site was frequently being attacked by a botnet hitting /xmlrpc.php
so rapidly, it would eventually force the FastCGI processes behind nginx to
consume all available CPU. Naturally, this would cause all legitimate …
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Great!
Once again, Apple has made a change in how DNS is handled in Mac OS X. Originally,
Yosemite (10.10) had replaced mDNSResponder with discoveryd. This meant that
all of those who had made a change to force mDNSResponder to always append
search domains to DNS lookups had to …
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Once again I was working on some Python code for EVE Online. This particular bit of code gathers a list of kills for a particular region and then summarizes that data in a daily report. Everything had been working properly, until one day...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users …Posted on in IT Management
Recently, I got an email that went something like this:
I have completed a BTech in Electronics and Communication. Now, I am working as a desktop engineer. How can I move my career to the network / server side?
Career moves are hard for everyone. Personally, I've been thinking about making …
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If you have a directory that you want to keep clean, tmpreaper is a great way
to remove files based on how old they are. The other day, I had a directory that
looked like this:
x@x:~/dump$ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 x x 212268169 Mar 15 01:02 …
