So, I love my Pixel 2. The photos are incredible. But, actually sharing those photos with other people has been a pain in the butt. Every time someone tries to send me a photo or I try to send a photo using MMS it failes. Every time. I’ve been too busy travelling to look into this seriously, so I’ve been sharing through email and Skype instead. Just got back home so I played around with it this morning. Turns out it is…
It has been a while since I had this problem, and I was a little sleepy because of travelling so it gave me a hard time for a few minutes. In trying to resolve the problem I noticed that there are no good answers about this that can be googled. Everyone seems to suggest extreme changes to your system. So, let me cover this quickly and easily. Problem: You are using Linux to connect to an OpenVPN server. You are using hotel or…
I know it has been quite a while, and the template is all screwed up. I’ve been working a new job for several months and haven’t really had time to write up much of what I have been working on. Because I ignored the security of the site some WordPress security issue allowed a hacker to get in so I just reloaded everything and slapped on a template I had laying around. I’ll eventually get around to fixing it up but I’m just a…
Some photos from the installation of five Oceanstor 9000 storage systems, ten Huawei x6800 with eighty H620 nodes, six switches, two racks, eight APC PDU, cables, and a little blood that will be in those damn cabinets forever.
Customer spends half a million on servers, storage and network. Documentation is not available in PDF, or if it is it is 1000 PDF files. Rackmount screws aren’t magentic, and they send EXACTLY the number you need. Screws are in 10 different sizes so if you lose one in the rack while trying to get the system mounted you are screwed (no pun intended). The screws are trash, strip easily which is a problem if you are trying to rearrange a rack at a customer’s…
I build this script long ago, using another script for reference. Lost track of the original long ago, sorry if it was yours. Basically, I run this script daily on web servers along with a tar backup of the /etc and any other vital directories. In the event of a disaster it is much easier to recover with this information. This isn’t as important now that we use virtual machines for almost everything, but it has come in handy quite a few times. I…
Kanban board like Trello have become pretty popular for managing projects. They are simple to understand and easy to use. But finding one that looks decent, works well, at a decent price can be difficult. Last year I setup one internally using the open source Wekan. Someone recently posted a Virtualbox image for Wekcan, but I prefer to use KVM and usually promote its usage. So I thought I would put together a similar how-to using a Proxmox KVM server. With the Proxmox distribution…
Part 5, Setup a local APT proxy Most of the hosts in my Magento development environment are going to be running Ubuntu. I will want to install security and application updates, but I don’t want to kill the Ubuntu repositories with my requests. I’d also like a little bit of control over the updates. If I want to install an update on production I need to test it first, and make sure the version I install on production is the same version I installed…
Part 4, Setup Ansible Ansible is a configuration management system. It uses SSH and easy to understand scripts to make changes to a host or hosts with very little interraction from the admin. It is perfect for small things like adding users, their SSH keys, and giving them sudo access. Big things like installing and configuring Magento. It can be used to enforce policies like standard configurations. And can help speed up things like server installations and application roll-outs. Ansible works over SSH. It…
Part 2, Creating the virtual machines in Proxmox In part 2 I am going to cover the setup of the initial virtual machines for the testing environment. Only the basic virtual machine creation will be covered in this post. Actual operating system installation and configuration will begin to be covered in the next part but will probably take 2-3 posts to cover everything. The virtual environment I am creating is the Test Environment. It is supposed to be as close to production as possible…