I’ve been neglecting this site since December, 2019. Around that time I went through yet another change in ownership of the company I worked for, or at least a change in the make up of the organization. I started at a company named Jumptap, which was almost immediately acquired by Millennial Media, which was then…
Continue ReadingIn working with Hashicorp vault I used an AWS role to automagically enable an instance to communicate with vault. That worked really well. But in developing and testing sometimes I needed that AWS instance to be reverted in vault – to no longer be registered. That required tracing down where and how that auth happens…
Continue ReadingSix weeks or so ago I was struggling to discover the documentation to set up nagios on (drumroll) a Mac Mini. Yes, Mac OS X 10.8.1. I found a write up… And it didn’t quite work. Another write up covered the missing details of the first write up. Eventually I got it up and running…
Continue ReadingI created a virtual machine in vSphere to become a syslog server. I got the virtual machine created, the Ubuntu 12.04 Server iso attached and the OS installed. The next step was to created a network interface, attach it to the virtual switch and get networking (route, dns) to come up and function… I tested…
Continue Reading…is not easy. I had issues pairing it with my 15″ Macbook Pro. I searched on the web and found one article that said a reboot would resolve this, and it did for that first pairing. I found I later wanted to pair that same trackpad with an 11″ Macbook Air – I went ot…
Continue Readingconsole2 with cygwin bash shell and ssh behind it (and a lot of other UNIX commands too, like ls, and find and grep and awk and gpg…) has turned out to be a good solution. I discovered that cygwin sets the terminal as TERM=cygwin. That plays hell with vi on SUN servers. I found…
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