Well, good news about SOPA. All of my sites participated in the SOPA Strike. While I didn’t fully black everything out (I guess I wasn’t keeping up enough on what others were doing…), I displayed a full-screen popover with a message (I have a version of my homepage …

I’m in the process of moving all of my public-facing services, currently hosted on a single Linode, to a new virtual machine (still with Linode, of course, just a new CentOS 6 VM). Of course, I’ve got a lot (about 60) of DNS records, spread across 8 domains …

Since I moved all of my WAN-facing stuff (mail, web, this blog, svn etc.) to a virtual server with Linode, and just have a desktop at home, it’s no longer practical to use Bacula for backups. Linode manages daily and weekly backups through their backup service, but they …

The Wp-Syntax plugin for WordPress provides syntax highlighting for WordPress blogs via the GeSHi PHP syntax highlighter. Unfortunately, the plugin includes a builtin version of GeSHi (currently 1.0.8.9) in geshi/. As a result, not only are users of the plugin not instructed to use the latest version …

This blog is run on wordpress, and I also do quite a bit in PHP, so I’m familiar with the GeSHi syntax highlighter. It’s PHP-based, and can run both as a Wordpress plugin (WP-Syntax) and as a PHP module. It also works quite well with the …

Just a quick little tip, I happened by the Mobile Barcoder Firefox add-on the other day. It’s a Firefox add-on that generates QR Code barcodes for text or links, right in your browser. While my Droid3 has a full keyboard, sometimes I still want to quickly send links from …

ISC dhcpd has the ability to always give a specific MAC address the same IP address “lease” using the fixed-address configuration option. This is configured in Vyatta using the static-mapping configuration statement. Unfortunately, since dhcpd doesn’t store fixed-address leases in the dhcpd.leases file, the Vyatta show dhcp leases …

I just installed php-suhosin 0.9.29 from EPEL on a CentOS 5.6 box. I’m running a whole bunch of name-based vhosts in Apache, and have a bunch of web apps, so I opted to run suhosin in simulation mode (don’t actually block anything, but log …

If you’ve been following the tech news lately, you’ve probably heard at least a bit about the massive blackberry outage over the past three days. While yes, it’s the first truly grand failure of RIM’s infrastructure in their 12-year history, it’s also a wonderful case …

Update March 2017: I have an updated version of this procedure for VyOS, the open source community fork of Vyatta, available in a new post: VyOS on Alix 2C1 Single Board Computer.

With the impending move to an apartment in Georgia and the migration of my rack full of servers …