I took some time yesterday to upgrade my beloved Nokia N8 to the new(ish) Symbian^3 Anna build and it wasn’t a smooth upgrade. Upgrading through the Ovi Suite went well enough but applications like the Ovi Store just wouldn’t work after the upgrade. The Ovi Store application would install and start but would sit on [...]
I’ve been hoping to upgrade my older ALIX2D3 router / firewall / wireless access point for a while now. While taking a few hours off from work over the holiday I surfed over to PCEngines and bought myself a Christmas present: a matching pair of ALIX3D2 boards and a Compex WLM200N5-23 MiniPCI card (802.11an) plus [...]
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Posted 09 January 2012
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted any new content but that’s not because I haven’t been doing anything worthy of mention. During the few breaks I’ve had from my day job I took the time to replace my QNAP 419p NAS with a custom system to host NFS shares. Here’s just a quick laundry [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
