Rants Goodbye Google Adsense A couple years ago (...I think...) for shits and giggles I set up a Google Adsense account. I tried to make it as unobtrusive as possible and had the ads show up at
Show and Tell Turning an Old Laptop into an IP Camera The Why...I'm cheap. I already have an old and crusty laptop doing nothing but collecting dust...and I couldn't justify the $40 to $80 bucks it would have cost to get a
Show and Tell Monitoring Infiniband Network Utilization on CentOS 7, with some bonus Zabbix bits I've recently had the time and the drive to dive a little deeper into Infiniband...which is a bit of an understatement considering my understanding prior to going down the 'how do I monitor this' rabbit hole consisted of compiling OpenMPI with Infiniband Support.
Show and Tell Using Gource to Visualize SSH Attempts...Because Why Not? As with most endeavours related to the question "I wonder if I can do X?", this one started off on a day where I was very VERY bored. The question "
Show and Tell VirtualGL on CentOS 7 using NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Rather than go over how difficult this was to accomplish, and how many hours I spent attempting, I'll just layout the steps I took to complete this task. Here is a quick example
Sorry for the Downtime...Again... Moved locations and it took WAY longer to get set up than I had hoped. Good thing I don't care about how many 9s I have. Hopefully I'm in a more stable state
Show and Tell Rocket.Chat Client RPM from DEB Package I primarily use Fedora/Cent/RHEL distributions, so I was a bit sad when I found out the desktop client for Rocket.Chat did not have a pre-packaged RPM for me to download.
HowTos Rocket.Chat on CentOS 7 In this post, I will go over installing Rocket.Chat on a server running CentOS 7 with SELinux ENABLED as well as exposing the service through an Apache Reverse Proxy with SSL enabled.
HowTos Install Pianobar from Source in Fedora 22 Needed Repos Steps done as root user Install the RPM Fusion repos dnf install http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$
Sorry about the Downtime... Had a hard drive fail on my oVirt server. Lessons learned File-level backups are great for restoring files...not so much for whole systems. That's it really... Moving Forward Moved to a new
Troubleshooting Images won't remove from Post in Ghost v0.5.3 As always, use documents you find on blogs at your own risk. This worked for me. It may not work for you. Also, make sure you have good backups before you go poking
HowTos Adding a NFS Server to Nethserver As always, use documents you find on blogs at your own risk. This worked for me. It may not work for you. I've recently started playing with an install of Nethserver and I
Troubleshooting GitLab Omnibus LDAP User Mismatch After OU Change Disclaimer As always, use documents you find on blogs at your own risk. This worked for me. It may not work for you. Also, make sure you have good backups before you go
HowTos Stop Qualys from Overrunning BASH History If you work with Linux in an enterprise setting, you probably have come into contact with the lovely Qualys security scanner. One GREAT side effect of this scan, is that your root user's
Troubleshooting The Foreman CA Certificate Issues When Starting Apache Quick Background While attempting to troubleshoot why my Foreman install stopped allowing me to log in via my LDAP server, which I still have not solved, I hit another issue. Apache would not
Rants Dealing with SeLinux Young and Reckless I'm not gonna lie to you. Prior to about a couple months ago, SeLinux was disabled on all my servers. What can I say...I was young and reckless. "
Troubleshooting OwnCloud Client and Gnome-Keyring Issues The Problem I ran into an issue today on a fresh Archlinux install. The owncloud client would not save my password in the gnome-keyring. Running the owncloud client with --logfile cloudlog and logging
HowTos Installing Ampache on CentOS 7 (Apache, MariaDB, PHP 5.4) [](http://ampache.org/) Been getting bored and spinning up VMs like a fiend here of late. The latest one is an Ampache Server. This one had
HowTos Installing Piwik on CentOS 7 (Apache, MariaDB, PHP 5.4) [](http://piwik.org/) Got bored today and decided to spin up a Piwik server. This is a rundown of the steps I took to install Piwik
Troubleshooting Post oVirt 3.5 Upgrade Issues I recently upgraded my personal oVirt server (which is both the engine and the hosts for my VMs) from 3.4 to 3.5. The upgrade process was relatively painless, and the basics
Rants Minesoft # :'( https://mojang.com/2014/09/yes-were-being-bought-by-microsoft/ This makes me sad and fearful for the future of this great game on the linux platform. Time will tell, I suppose...
HowTos Migrating GitLab to GitLab-Omnibus I've recently discovered that the great people at GitLab have released the GitLab-Omnibus. This project creates full-stack platform-specific downloadable packages for GitLab. This is great, especially since a manual install on a Red
Rants Themes, They Are a Changin' FYI: I have a problem. I'm a bit of an indecisive person by nature...and this shows in most areas of my life. ESPECIALLY if I can change a theme easily. So...this
HowTos Sending Commands into a Screen Session So, you have some existing piece of software that really REALLY...I MEAN REALLY wants its input on the command prompt. That is to say command < /file/with/input fails ya, and
HowTos Pithos on Arch Linux Getting Pithos up and running on Arch was relatively painless. I was able to build it from source with minimal dependency pain, but I've since ditched that method for using the AUR. The
