I’ve been working on a set of scripts to backup the wordpress instances on my server. While structuring these scripts I realized that I hadn’t structured my WP installs consistently. I had played around with using table prefixes and hosting multiple WP instances in a single database but eventually I just broke them out into [...]
It’s been getting progressively colder and I can feel another Syracuse winter bearing down fast. Last Friday I got the feeling that I may not get the chance to do it again so I rode my motorcycle over to Shifty’s for lunch. It’s funny what we crave when faced with the end of the summer [...]
Happy Programmers’ Day everyone!
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Posted 13 September 2011
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One of the many things I’ve had to do as part of transitioning to my new job is move my retirement savings (401k) over to a new provider. In this case I’ve been moving over to the Fidelity site. The security of financial web sites never fails to disappoint. No I didn’t try some crazy [...]
In my last post on this topic I gave a quick description of a simulation of the sVirt architecture. Talking about it is only half the work. In this post I’ll show it in action and interpret the output as it relates to the separation goals. Building and Installing After you clone the git repo [...]
With today a wash because of Irene, I figured I’d write up a fun bike ride I took last weekend on the Minuteman Bikeway. It’s a fun ride but on a Sunday it’s pretty crowded. There’s a good mix of little kids and Lance Armstrong wannabes, perfect for keeping things interesting. I covered the whole [...]
Working out of my “home office” these past two weeks I’ve found a few short comings in my setup. While on my first teleconference last week I spent an hour holding my cellphone to my head. Miserable. I never thought I’d miss a land line / speaker phone. Easy problem to solve though, just get [...]
We’re getting close to the end of my on-going series exploring the SELinux mlsconstrain. Now that we’ve gone though and used some simple logic to reason through access control decisions it’s time for a simple and practical application. Background In my first post under my MastersProject tag I laid out some of the justification for [...]
Started with a new employer (Citrix) today. Naturally my first task of setting up a development system was more work than I wanted it to be. Turns out the EliteBook 2560p has Intel 83579LM network hardware and the Debian Squeeze e1000 driver predates it. Using ‘testing’ is always an option but not a very stable [...]
I’ve been working on a fix to a system script that passes around and manipulates IP addresses. With IPv6 becoming more prevalent this script must work with IPv6 addresses not just v4. While working on this and digging around the web I ran across some stuff that I think is worth sharing. The first thing [...]
