Dear Digital Security Controls (DSC), I recently purchased your T-link extension (IP module) for two alarm systems that I wanted to be able to remotely manage. After a few hours of troubleshooting (read: having to install Windows XP), I am now able to connect to these alarm systems over a VPN connection, but that’s about it. Please take a look at this …
(Fine, this isn’t war dialing in the 90s context, but it made for a good title.) As furious I am with Lufhansa’s strike, it did give me time to write a fun script. With the announcement of the strike, Lufthansa’s customer service lines were brought to their knees. After trying to manually call a few of them (in different countries), I finally gave up with …
After using Loggly for a few years, I stumbled across Logentries (disclosure: referral link). What I was looking for was basically something that is more affordable when the volume increases, and Logentries is a lot more affordable than Loggly as you grow. If you are just starting out using a remote shipping target (be Loggly, Papertrail or Logentries), it …
Yesterday I had the pleaseure to speak at Open Cloud Day in Bern, Switzerland. The linup for the event was good and I’m happy to contribute to the thriving open source and tech community in Switzerland. It was also great to hang out with the fine folks over at ICCLAB and ZHAW. Update: The recording of the talk is available here
Modern document management for your startup We’re currently in the process of revamping how we deal with documents at WireLoad. Here are some thoughts on this and how we do things today.
Manage Docker resources with Cgroups My latest blog-post about Docker and Cgroups is live at CloudSigma’s blog.
hosted-graphite: One of the best ways to ensure your whole team knows what your technology is doing is to ensure that everyone has quick and easy access to your dashboards. One of the best ways to do that is to get your dashboards displayed on a giant screen right in the middle of your work area. Sometimes this can be a bit of a pain - you need to devote …
Here’s my presentation from ApacheCon in Austin, TX. I’m happy that I was invited to speak at the conference as it was full of awesome and talented people.
I’ve been using Google Voice for a long time. In fact, I started using it back when it was called Grand Central (which was an acquisition). It’s a great product, and I really love it. Unfortunately it has more or less been left untouched for the last few years. If you’re in the U.S., Google Voice works great. You can just forward your Google Voice to your …
As I was working on my upcoming presentation at ApacheCon, I was playing a little bit with cgroups inside Docker. What I found was that there aren’t a whole lot of documentation on this, so I figured I put together a quick blog post about it. Enable the LXC driver Assuming you already have Docker installed on Ubuntu 14.04, you will still need to enable the …
When deling with website migrations, you sometimes need to map out the old content such that you can create your redirect to the new pages. While doing this, I ran across this little helpful snippet. Just modify the URL to the sitemap and the script will print out all the pages. You will need BeautifulSoup 4 and Requests.