TheDude

Recently we had to install openssl but for the 32-bit platform. This is how I did it. wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.8x.tar.gz tar zxvf openssl-0.9.8x.tar.gz setarch i386 ./config -m32 shared make clean; make install In general though for anything that you need to build the following command will work: ./configure && make && sudo make install

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Nov 19

Chef change attributes node level Java cookbook

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Chef, DevOps

How do you change the attributes at the node level. I just went through this recently with some Scala servers that required Oracle Java 7. The defaults for the Java cookbook at the marketplace: https://supermarket.getchef.com/cookbooks/java#readme are openJDK 6. To replace them you need to: knife node edit <NODE_NAME> In the editor that pops up add …

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Oct 31

For your Halloween – Alfred Hichcock’s Ghost Stories

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Survival

One of the best records I ever owned. I nearly wore it out as a kid. Finally a girlfriend took it from me when I was in college damn it! But fun stories even now.

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Oct 24

Interesting Conspiracy Movie from 2012 – ‘111’

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Conspiracy

Found an interesting short that tries to bring a bunch of conspiracy theory’s together and … Well you be the judge.

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Oct 22

gpg command line

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First create a key: gpg –gen-key For generation I use the default of RSA and RSA, and I use 4096 bits, and i usually let the keys live for 1y. Create a Revocation Certificate so you can Revoke you key on a keyserver gpg –gen-revoke –armor –output=GPGRevocationCertificate.asc your@email.address Create your ASCII public key so other …

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Oct 21

Unix flush or refresh DNS cache

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For Red Hat systems the command is service nscd restart For Debian systems its /etc/init.d/nscd restart

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Jun 27

Putty is the worst ssh client ever!

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DevOps

Putty can’t remember the last IP address you used. It can’t remember anything. the buffer is horrendously low. adding a ssh key should be straight forward. remembering your fucking login ID should be straight forward. remembering the fucking keys! Even the location of the keys? changing the color scheme should be easy, and able to …

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Jun 19

chroot sftp in AWS with likewise / pbis 7.5+

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Oh the humanity! Configuring chrooted sftp always seems like a chore when you combine it with an out side authentication like winbind or pbis (Power Broker Identity Services). So configuring /etc/ssh/sshd_config is straight forward. All you need to change is: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Cookbook/SFTP But I kept seeing errors in /var/log/secure that said denied access because they …

Tags: AWS, likewise, pbis, sftp

May 30

Amazing Film on Alien Reproduction Vehicle and ZPE

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Conspiracy

Update Aug 25th 2015 – Looks like James Gladman has released the full HD version of the movie on Vimeo. I’d recommend that you go view his instead of the one below: https://vimeo.com/133170463 ———————————————————————————————————————————————————- What’s interesting is that the director and writer (James Allen Higgins) of this film appears to have been poisoned to death. …

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May 16

s3fs install on CentOS AmazonEC2

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