TheDude

In maintaining linux systems I often find that I need to zip the contents of a folder or unzip some settings. Zip is useful for compressing and transmitting files. There isn’t anything new here and it is straight out of the man pages but since I only use it once every 6 months I’m going …

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Feb 19

tcpdump

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The command that will capture just about everything for tcpdump is: sudo tcpdump -lxxvventtteXSs 0 -w /disk1/TCPdebug/28.pcap

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Jan 15

Enable Java 7 plugin for Linux Firefox

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So the new Java update came out yesterday (version 7.51) and messed up access to our Checkpoint VPN SSL client. And I find out that after installing the new version on windows you need to set the Java control panel security tab to Medium for our VPN to be trusted. But I’m using Fedora 19 …

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Oct 31

Eidolon TLP, Hannibal, DARPA and the state of Artifical Intelligence

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AI, Conspiracy

Update January 31, 2016 – I still think that this is a real story, deliberately buried. Let’s be honest as to why. The current system is likely a Blue Gene/Q. Costing 1.3 Million per rack. And operating cost per year will be close to 2.5 million per yea for cooling, housing, network access, security, and …

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Oct 16

Denyhosts on fedora 19

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For whatever reason I had one hell of a time getting denyhosts setup on fedora. Come to find out there is one big reason for this, chkconfig has been replaced with systemctl. It’s simple to setup and install once you know that all you need to do is 2 simple commands: sudo yum install denyhosts …

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Sep 22

An EMP Will Kill your Car?

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EMP, Solar Flare

I borrowed a new book from Amazon today It’s about a Carrington Event that kills all electronics. I have an increasingly difficult time with this scenario. And the reason is that the electronics need to be grounded to be affected. The book starts off (as all EMP books do) with all the cars going dead …

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Sep 21

Chef calculate checksum

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Chef, DevOps

I’ve been working with Chef at work and there are several items that I keep looking up. The first of these is calculating the checksum for a file that chef downloads. Since we are doing some customized recipes I keep looking at having to grab a file and check the checksum, although not completely necessary …

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Financial Collapse, Peak Oil

Sep 20

What this site is really about

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I have not defined what I’m looking to do here but it’s along the lines of getting us off of oil and attempting a smooth transition to renewables. I think it might just be easier than all of us thought even 2 years ago. I’ll try and put up a page that goes over this because the math …

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Sep 14

Chef-client fails to complete

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Chef, DevOps

FATAL: Net::HTTPServerException: 413 “Request Entity Too Large” A nasty message from the chef-client that was happening because ohai was uploading all of our users and groups. But after configuring the /etc/chef/client.rb file and adding: Ohai::Config[:disabled_plugins] = [“passwd”] Is no longer an issue https://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Disabling+Ohai+Plugins

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