On my way back during my road trip from Los Angeles to Colorado I saw a pillar of smoke in the distance. Driving towards it I saw a building fully-engulfed in flames in this small town, with hardly anyone around it.
People started gathering, and after a few minutes the …
This is primarily to help me remember, and to help anyone who finds this via Google.
If you're trying to use the rackspace-novaclient tool to connect to RackSpace's Public Cloud, and you want to use the Heat client as well, you need to do a little tweaking.
OS_PASSWORD needs to …
I just finished "The Affluent Investor" by Phil DeMuth. Phil defines "affluent" as having between $100,000 and $10,000,000 in assets. (Very high net-worth individuals have a different set of challenges that are not covered in this book.) I'm not yet affluent by this definition, but still found …
If you're a geek like I am, you get a few emails from recruiters a day, and a few calls a week. This tip helps deal with the emails and Linked-In connection requests. It doesn't help with the calls. (The "send to voicemail" button on my phone works for that …
I need to submit a daily log of what I've accomplished to my job. But I find it hard to keep track sometimes, and I feel like I've forgotten things I should be putting on that list. (Yes, yes, OCD, I know.)
I found the Log To Evernote Keyboard Maestro …
I previously announced this, but I thought I'd add a little more detail here. May 19, 2014 was my first day as a RackSpace DevOps Engineer. I'm tremendously excited to be a part of RackSpace, both because of the great company and great team I'm joining, and because of the …
Last night I wrote an email advising a client about the Heartbleed vulnerability and its impact on operations. I'm posting that here, as it's a little more balanced and professional (and better written) than the blog entry I wrote last night. Of course I've omitted names to protect my clients' …
I'm trying not to be alarmist, but it seems we've got a "holy fucking shit" security bug that everyone who runs a server needs to be aware of. And that everyone who uses the Internet needs to be aware of. Note that this was written on April 7, 2014 …
I'm doing some work on demo projects for AT&T's M2X.1 Prior to this there was example code, but there wasn't a quick and easy way of getting a working example going.
I've now created two new demos, with two hosting options:
The Vagrant demo, of course …
If you're using Vagrant and you've upgraded to the latest version of VirtualBox (4.3.10 as of March 25, 2014), and you've got vagrant-vbguest installed (as you should) then you've undoubtedly run into a nasty bug:
default: /vagrant => /YOUR_VAGRANT_DIRECTORY
Failed to mount folders in Linux guest. This is usually …