Archive for the ‘howto’ Category
TV Cable Tidy
TL;DR If you’re putting a TV on a modern open stand then the ancillaries and cables can make a real mess and spoil the overall look. I put a board onto the VESA mount on the back of my TV to hold everything, which then let me arrange the cables into one tidy trunk running […]
Filed under: howto, making, Raspberry Pi, technology | 2 Comments
Tags: amp, AV, cable, DVD, DVR, mount, stand, tidy, tv, VESA
Late last year AWS launched Private DNS within Amazon VPC as part of their Route 53 service. This allows customers to create DNS entries that are only visible within a VPC (or group of VPCs). It’s also possible to have ‘split horizon’ DNS where servers inside a VPC get different answers to the same queries versus users […]
Filed under: CohesiveFT, howto, networking | 2 Comments
Tags: aws, Bind, DNS, Route 53, Unbound, VPC
Searching private Gists
I’m a big fan of Github Gist, as it’s an excellent way to store fragments of code and config. Whatever I feel I can make public I do, and all of that stuff is easily searchable. A bunch of my gists are private, sometimes because they contain proprietary information, sometime because they’re for something so […]
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Tags: evernote, gist, github, note, search, sync
Apache 2.2 on Ubuntu 14.04
Apache 2.4 changes things a lot – particularly around authentication and authorisation. I’m not the first to run into this issue, but I didn’t find a single straight answer online. So here goes (as root): If you want mpm-worker then do this instead:
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Tags: 14.04, 2.2, Apache, Ubuntu
Upgrading Docker
Dockercon #2 is underway, version 1.7.0 of Docker was released at the end of last week, and lots of other new toys are being launched. Time for some upgrades. I got used to Docker always restarting containers when the daemon restarted, which included upgrades, but that behaviour went away around version 1.3.0 with the introduction […]
Filed under: code, Docker, howto | 1 Comment
Tags: Docker, script, upgrade
TL;DR The Administrator setup for Google Apps Migration guide makes things look pretty straightforward, but it’s much, much more complicated. What should be just a couple of check boxes turned out to be a twisty turny journey through hidden menus littered across distant parts of the administrators console. Background The move from CohesiveFT to Cohesive Networks […]
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Tags: API, email, gapps, google, Google Apps, howto, IMAP, mail, migration, Outlook
I fell into a trap with my new Gen 8 Microservers like this: Install 60 day trial license for iLO Advanced Update BIOS date/time Find that trial license has now expired :( There really should be some sort of warning on the license page (and maybe also the serial/password tag) to say update your clock […]
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Tags: default, factory, Gen8, HP, iLO, Microserver, reset
OpenWRT on TP-Link WR-703N
The TP-Link WR-703N is a nice, hackable pocket WiFi router. I’ve seen them put to some interesting purposes, but I didn’t own one until yesterday when the kind folk at QCon Shanghai gave me one. I’m not a fan of factory TP-Link firmware at the best of times, but more so when it defaults to […]
Filed under: howto, networking | 2 Comments
Tags: ethernet, lan, OpenWRT, TL-WR703N, TP-Link, wan, wifi, WR703N
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