Newly leaked documents reveal NSA is targeting SysAdmins - disturbing new information.

Quick Python script to backup Disqus comments for a forum

My blog is finally migrated from self-hosted WordPress to Pelican on GitHub Pages. Quite an ordeal.

Solutions to some of the many problems converting a WordPress blog to a Pelican blog with Disqus for commenting.

My adventures converting my WordPress blog to Pelican, the problems I encountered, and how I solved them.

Right now, this blog, my email, and a whole bunch of other services are hosted on a Linode Xen VM. I don’t really keep up to date with administration and upgrades the way I used to, and honestly, I’d rather spend my time working on other things (like …

So hypothetically, you have a GPG public/private keypair (from a backup or old computer), but you don’t remember the passphrase. Here’s a relatively simple way to find it from a number of possible options. This requires that you have a computer secure enough to store the possible …

Here’s a tiny little snippet that I have in my .bashrc which really comes in handy when trying to figure out what I did on a system when. One of the first things I do when (eek) building out or working on a one-off machine (or setting up a …

Every once in a while I need to add a bunch of redirects in Apache. Here’s a handy, dead simple Python script which takes a list of URLs on STDIN, and for each one prints out either the response code, or, if the response is a redirect, the response …

I posted back in January about RPM Spec Files for nodejs 0.9.5 and v8 on CentOS 6. In that post I also said that I was unable to get recent NodeJS to build on CentOS 5 because of a long chain of dependencies including node-gyp, v8, http-parser, glibc …