Perhaps you’re at a coffee shop, and want to ensure your communication is secure. Or maybe you are out of the country, and need access to something like annualcreditreport.com. What’s a body to do? If you have a Mac, set up a system-wide proxy setting for a new Location, of course! This is a very …
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half year update: how are my predictions so far?
Back in Feb, I published a list of tech-related predictions for 2015. How’m I doing? Let’s see ones that have happened (or are very close to have happened): Itanium OEL’d HP spinning-off business units – sorta, they’re splitting in half IBM is losing value … but not as much as I predicted (yet) cloud is …
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on-demand, secure, distributed storage – one step closer
In follow-up to a post from 2013, and earlier this year, I’ve been working on a pointy-clicky deployable MooseFS+{{ownCloud}} atop encrypted file systems environment you can rent/buy as a service from my company. I’ve also – potentially – kicked-off a new project from Bitnami to add MooseFS to their apps list.
automation is a multiplier
Multipliers. They’re ubiquitous – from ratchet wrenches to fertilizer, blocks-and-tackle to calculators, humans rely on multipliers all the time. Multipliers are amazing things because they allow an individual to “do more with less” – a single person can build a coral castle with nothing more complex than simple machines. Or move 70 people at 70 miles …
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reverse proxying from apache to tomcat
After much hemming and hawing, I was able to get {{Apache}} working as a reverse proxy to {{Tomcat}} today. <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName domain.com ServerAlias www.domain.com ProxyPreserveHost on ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/path/ ProxyPassReverse / http://domain.com:8080/path/ </VirtualHost> That’s all you need (though you can add much more). Note the trailing slashes on the proxy paths – without them, …
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maggie
It had such promise. Or, should have. How could you go wrong? Slow zombies. {{Arnold Schwarzenegger}}. A plot. It was also [almost] direct-to-video. What am I talking about? {{Maggie}}. The worst movie Ahnold has been in since {{End Of Days}} (and boy was that one bad). No, it was worse than {{End Of Days}}. I don’t …
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Acts 16
It’s been quite some time since I wrote anything on this blog. We’ve been steadily progressing through Acts in my men’s Bible study group – finishing chapter 15 this past Saturday. What a true joy it is to have a group of men you can study, discuss, and learn from (and with) in Christ! There …
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happy 60th birthday
My mom turns 60 today. Congratulations 🙂
primary elections should happen at the same time across the country
In Kentucky, this past Tuesday was Primary Day. The day every registered voter, in the appropriate party, could go to the polls and say who we want to run to represent our party in the General Election. While political parties, as such, need to be abolished, and voting is borked, that every state holds its …
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a simple restructuring of elections
In close follow-up with my desire to see political parties abolished, we also need to rethink how voting is done. In the United States, you can only vote for a single candidate for most positions (town councils are an exception). You do not have the opportunity to say anything more than a binary yes|no to a …
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political parties should be abolished
John Adams and George Washington, among many others, both warned of the dangers of political parties. There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be …
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pydio has clients now
In update to my recent how-to, I found out from the founder of Pydio there are dedicated clients now. IOW, you don’t have to use just the WebUI. I haven’t tried any of them yet, but good to know they’re now there – it makes comparing Pydio and other tools like ownCloud easier.
welcome, zebediah!
We got to meet the latest addition to our family a few days ago, on the 5th. For the second time in under a year, we had the last-minute opportunity to adopt a baby boy. Last year we welcomed a 3.5 month-old, and this year we have a newborn. He’s had some complications, and been …
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vision for lexington
Over the past 5 years, I have witnessed some of the growth Lexington KY has started to undergo. From a population in the city proper of about 260,000 in 2000 to 295,000 in 2010 to an estimated 315,000 in 2015, While there seems to be something of a plan/vision for the downtown area, the majority of …
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traveling consultant cheat sheet
“Join the Navy and See the World!”* Perhaps one of the most famous recruitment phrases ever established in the United States. And it’s not at all dissimilar form what a lot of budding consultants think they are going to do when either joining a services organization, or starting their own business. I have been fortunate in …
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what level of abstraction is appropriate?
Every day we all work at multiple levels of abstraction. Perhaps this XKCD comic sums it up best: But unless you’re weird and think about these kinds of things (like I do), you probably just run through your life happily interacting at whatever level seems most appropriate at the time. Most drivers, for example, don’t …
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may 11 bglug meeting 6:30p at beaumont branch: topic – freeipa
We will be meeting at the Beaumont Library Branch at 6:30p on 11 May. Our speaker is the LUG’s own Nathaniel McCallum, one of the FreeIPA maintainers – and all-around nice guy. Come out and support the LUG, learn something new, and meet cool people.
all hail the thunderstorm!
Got our first hail of the year today – pea sized, and not much (thankfully) – but it’s here.
owncloud vs pydio – more diy cloud storage
Last week I wrote a how-to on using Pydio as a front-end to a MooseFS distributed data storage cluster. The big complaint I had while writing that was that I wanted to use ownCloud, but it doesn’t Just Work™ on {{CentOS}} 6*. After finishing the tutorial, I decided to do some more digging – because …
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jump start your brain by doug hall
I’m happy I didn’t pay for this copy of {{Jump Start Your Brain}}. I’m saddened someone else did in order to give it to me. The core of {{Doug Hall}}’s creative self-help book from 1996 is decent: get outside yourself, remember what it’s like to be a kid, have fun, don’t take yourself too seriously, and …
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steam by andrea sutcliffe
{{Andrea Sutcliffe}}’s book {{Steam: The Untold Story of American’s First Great Invention}} was a pure joy to read. Being the second review I’m writing with my “new” system, I hope you find this book as interesting as I have. In 1784, {{James Rumsey}} designed a boat that could, by purely mechanical means, move its way …
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hey yahoo! sports – why not always post the magic number for every team?
Since the magic number (and I’ll take the example of baseball, because while I don’t get to watch them much, I do follow the Mets) is so easy to calculate, why not post it on the standings as soon as there have been games played? This would be a good use of technology relative to baseball …
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why do i use digital ocean?
Besides the fact that I have a referral code, I think Digital Ocean has done a great job of making an accessible, affordable, cloud environment for folks (like me) to spin-up and -down servers for trying new things out. You can’t beat an average of 55 seconds to get a new server. There are other …
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create your own clustered cloud storage system with moosefs and pydio
This started-off as a how-to on installing ownCloud. But their own installation procedures don’t work for the 8.0x release and {{CentOS}} 6. Most of you know I’ve been interested in distributed / cloud storage for quite some time. And that I find MooseFS to be fascinating. As of 2.0, MooseFS comes in two flavors – the …
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keep your wordpress installs up-to-date
I run several websites on my server – nothing heavy, just some various vhosts for {{Apache}}. Many (but not all) of them run {{WordPress}}. At some unknown point (and I haven’t kept the crap that was being used around), over 100,000 files were uploaded to the root directory of one of the websites (the only …
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