Creating a Non-standard Size Bootable Floppy Image for PXE Boot
I originally posted this article over at Failverse, but I figured I should have it on my own blog as well. The majority of motherboard manufactures still only allow you to update your BIOS either from...
View ArticleNet-install a custom linux distro on Cloud Servers
I originally posted this article over at Failverse, but I figured I should have it on my own blog as well. This guide may be a little dated as Rackspace has updated their host servers to utilize a...
View ArticleConfiguring SSL Termination on Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers
Rackspace Cloud recently introduced SSL termination on Cloud Load Balancers. As of right now, there is no way to implement this feature through the control panel and it is only available via the API....
View ArticleUFW – We can rebuild him. We have the technology.
So say you have UFW (uncomplicated firewall) installed on your server and you accidentally issue “iptables -F” and kill all of your networking. “No worries,” you think, “I can just restart UFW.” Except...
View ArticleAuthenticating against Rackspace Cloud Identity Service v2.0
As the product portfolio of Rackspace Cloud continued to grow, it became evident that it was necessary to revamp the authentication process to provide better information about service endpoints through...
View ArticleAll About Nova-Agent (well, on linux that is)
If you have a Linux Cloud Server with Rackspace, you may notice a couple extra processes that might not exist on a stock build of that distro on physical hardware. For example, here’s what’s in...
View Article.bashrc goodies
Here are a couple of goodies I have in my .bashrc to make my life easier. I’ll probably add some more later. function speed-test { # Curls the given address and outputs some nice metrics. Nice...
View ArticleBacking up ecryptfs on an LV
Because I know I will forget this in the future: # create the LV snapshot hodor ~ # lvcreate -L5G -s -n backup-home /dev/hodor/home Logical volume "backup-home" created # create the mount point and...
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