Since this can be a challenge to remember in a pinch, I decided I'd post these basic linux user administration commands. Please keep in mind that these commands/options are not the same across all distros so your milage may vary. Lock Read more…
Installation Time: 1.25 hrs Troubleshooting Time: 2.30 hrs So I undertook the task of installing OpenNebula today because I thought I'd explore what features and functionality it could bring to my virtual environment. While I did not setup my environment Read more…
Ebony glass mirror Lines streaking down the other side Twisted the glass paintings Deafening dark reflections Spikes of light Shards of color Kaleidoscope of feelings Sitting at the edge of silence Stained glass pentacles shimmering in the night February 24th Read more…
So every now and then while trying to do simple things, computing throws something at you that's both frustrating and not very straight forward. This is one of those times. I was recently working on installing g++ on a Linux build. Read more…
So I keep having to do this to bring all of my systems in line for monitoring with Observium. While I might not continue to use it long term (I'm still debating between it and Zenoss), it's still good to Read more…
In this post, I'm not going to go into the pro's and con's of the various virtualization options that are currently out there as there are already plenty of side-by-side comparisons. If you're looking for a technical comparison, this probably Read more…
Every once in a while I've run into a problem where SSH takes a very long time to prompt for a password and log into a system. In almost all cases this has been related to DNS. First, you should Read more…