Introduction Ever find yourself needing to edit remotely over SSH and just wish you could use your favorite locally installed editor? Yeah VI and EMACS are great, but sometimes don’t you just wish you could have your full workspace open without having to SCP/FTP files around. Well, you can and Read more…
Foreword I needed a way to get inside my work firewall from home. There was a DMZ linux machine that I could SSH to, but no VPN available. What I really needed was a way to configure the router/firewall, but the only way to do that was to be on Read more…
Forward So here’s the scenario, let’s say for the sake of argument that you have a CentOS linux box running with a single NIC, but you want to have 2 IP addresses assigned to this box (for whatever reason). The following is a step by step guide that will walk Read more…
Foreword The following is a tutorial for creating PHP scripted daemons. All examples will be performed on CentOS linux. The daemon code itself will be written in PHP with a BASH script wrapper. Getting Started So to get started, let’s create a simple PHP file that will be executed as Read more…
Foreword The following is a primer on creating RightScale scripts that execute with attachments. Overview Creating RightScale scripts can be a little daunting at first, but with a little time and effort one can quickly ramp up from beginner to expert. The examples show here will be executed on a Read more…
Foreword This explanation of clustering Rabbit-MQ assumes that you’ve had some experience with Rabbit-MQ. At least to the point of being able to get Rabbit-MQ up and running and processing messages. For this explanation I will be using CentOS linux, other linux distributions may or may not require slight modifications Read more…
I was recently tasked to develop a system that would need to write data in the Gigabytes per second range directly to disk. While doing so, I needed to spec out and build a machine that allowed for that type of bandwidth to be persisted as well as find the Read more…