Posts

Routing browser traffic through an SSH SOCKS tunnel with ssh -D, and viewing the process tree with pstree -p.

Mar 29, 2012 1 min Linux Networking

Installing Linux Integration Services v3.2 on a CentOS 6.2 virtual machine in Hyper-V from the mounted ISO.

archived Mar 23, 2012 1 min Hyper-V Linux

Passing a local 2 TB SATA drive to an ESXi 5 VM as a raw device mapping created with vmkfstools.

archived Feb 19, 2012 2 min Virtualization Storage

Writing a pfSense .img file to a USB flash drive from Mac OS X using dd with the raw rdisk device.

archived Feb 7, 2012 1 min Macos Pfsense

Enabling TRIM on a non-Apple SSD under OS X Lion using the TRIM Enabler program.

archived Jan 23, 2012 1 min Macos Storage

Streaming video from a home server to a Mac, an iPad and a PlayStation 3 using StreamToMe, AirVideo and PS3 Media Server.

archived Jan 21, 2012 1 min Homelab Tools

Moving a Tumblr blog to a self-hosted WordPress install, where turning off the custom domain fixed the Tumblr Importer connection error.

archived Jan 13, 2012 1 min Wordpress

Setting up Nagios 3.1.2 on Ubuntu Server to post host and service alerts to Twitter with a tweepy script and a Twitter contact.

archived Dec 13, 2011 2 min Nagios Monitoring

Sharing a telnet command to connect to the miku.acm.uiuc.edu host.

archived Dec 1, 2011 1 min Networking

Installing mlocate on CentOS and running its daily cron script to build the locate database.

archived Nov 26, 2011 1 min Linux