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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Spent a few minutes searching for a howto for setting up ethernet interface bonding on a new file server I’m building today. Nothing special but I found a bunch that aren’t that great … I know, welcome to the internet right? But I did find one that’s awesome from tuxhelp.org. My final config went like [...]
I spent much longer than I’d like to admit moving my mail server today. The Debian exim4 package is very easy to configure and setting up TLS and authentication is a snap with the help of a very good Debian Administration article. Also I’ve had to tweak the address_file transport to support Sieve and the [...]
I’ve had a HP DL360 hosting my blog, MySQL, SMTP and IMAP servers for a while now. The server’s been great and I’ve always intended to add an online spare (a.k.a. hot spare) for a little piece of mind. I’ve finally got around to it and it turns out that the syntax for using the [...]
For the past two months my day job has taken over my life. As always, during the height of my insane work schedule my wireless router started acting up. I guess I needed something to break so I had an excuse to take a much needed break from work. I’d pretty much forgotten I even [...]
In my last post I went into the reasons why exporting the network hardware from dom0 to an unprivileged driver domain is good for security. This time the “how” is our focus. The documentation out there isn’t perfect and it could use a bit of updating so expect to see a few edits to the [...]
