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Midterm week – A retrospect of my first 6 weeks of uni
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Personal, Uncategorized on October 17, 2012
So… I’m at university. University of Waterloo to be exact. It’s been almost a whirlwind – it’s both more and less hectic than IB, if that makes sense. There’s more to do – activities, events and maintenance things (laundry, grocery shopping and so on.) And the same time, there’s less – schoolwork isn’t as demanding […]
Cheaping out on EC2 – using Spot Instances
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin, Uncategorized on September 1, 2012
Amazon markets Spot Instances as a way to reduce the price you pay for instances. So, continuing my efforts to reduce expenses on EC2, I looked into using spot instances. Spot instances are essentially just like normal instances. You can create your own AMIs, where you essentially create an image and tell Amazon to create […]
HLDS on EC2
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Uncategorized on August 16, 2012
Update Jul 2014 – use the shiny new SteamCMD tool. Also, I started using DigitalOcean instead of EC2 (marginally cheaper, incredibly easier to setup) Create a Instance – spot works Install wget, tar, ncompress – depends on your distro, fedora 17 by default didn’t come with this (which, btw, is WTF?!) Also, screen to run […]
Linkdump – 18/8/11
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Uncategorized on August 18, 2011
www.ossec.net/main/downloads Fully featured HIDS. For free. I look forward to messing around with it soon.
Link dump: 14/08/11
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Uncategorized on August 14, 2011
Only 1 today: www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9218765/10_essential_MySQL_tools_for_admins – Tool #2 & 3 seem the most useful for small-scale stuff… #1 looks interesting, but I need to find out how to set up query logs… or whatever the analyzer is running off of. =|
SELinux and Apache userdirs
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Uncategorized on August 13, 2011
Normally I disable SELinux – for a home user, the additional security it provides isn’t worth much. But for some reason I left it enabled on this install of Fedora 15. Which led to problems when I tried to get phpMyAdmin working out of my home directory.
Linkdump – 11/8/11
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Uncategorized on August 11, 2011
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/hh377174 – Critical Career Paths for IT Pros
Link Dump – 9/8/11
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Uncategorized on August 9, 2011
www.pixelatedimage.com/blog/ – David du Chemin, an interesting photographer. Manfrotto did a webinar with him, which I’ve been meaning to watch. (Signed up, but they’re held at 3AM local time, which is..not going to happen.) nerdfitness.com/blog/ – As the URL suggests, a fitness blog… thing. Sells a book, but it seems to have a bunch of […]
Getting Xen up and running
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Uncategorized on May 14, 2011
Now that Xen and a dom0-capable kernel have been installed, it’s time to combine the two. There’s essentially two steps to this: Set up grub to boot Xen Set up Fedora to automatically start the Xen management services
Because setting up automated kernel compilation is annoying
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Uncategorized on May 9, 2011
git checkout -f xen/next-2.6.39 && git pull && yes “”|make oldconfig && make rpm-pkg && git checkout -f xen/next-2.6.32 && git pull && yes “”|make oldconfig && make rpm-pkg && git checkout -f xen/stable-2.6.32.x && git pull && yes “”|make oldconfig && make rpm-pkg Now I have to mix it all together in a crontab […]