I'm sure vagrant package will soon support vmware fusion too, but as of this article it does not. So I wrote a little script that'll clean up, shrink, and package a vmware virtualmachine directory into a vagrant box.
It's should be run from the directory of the ...
Fusion 5 is a bit different than previous versions. It adds a lot of network configuration missing in previous versions. There are two interfaces that aren't modifiable in the gui; vmnet1 and vmnet8.
These are default networks created by VMware. vmnet1 is VMware's default hostonly net and vmnet8 ...
The intent of this article is to walk through the installation, configuration, and general debugging of OpenSwan based IPSec tunnels. Though primarily focused on Ubuntu & Debian systems, non-package management portions should apply generally.
We install using apt-get or aptitude.
% apt-get install openswan
For a basic PSK ...
Here we cover the steps for deploying a package to a puppet agent/node. Like with chef, we assume a working installation.
Though I must take the opportunity to comment that the installation process for puppet was ridiculously easy.
Package installation can be performed completely ...
We've been using Chef to deploy our infrastructure for a while now. One of the main sticking points we've run into is the barrier to entry for develoepers as a result of the boiler plate required to perform a simple deployment task. Our ideal framework would be ...
This little snippet allows dict keys to be accessed like attributes. For example
d = CustomDict({"foo": "bar", "bah": {"baz": "bot"}})
Can be accessed like
d.foo # returns "bar"
d.foo.bah.baz # returns "bot"
In addition to the hash key lookups.
class CustomDict(dict):
def __init__(self, data):
d ...Greg Fish has a pretty interesting article on the religious victim complex. The comments sparked a good discussion on the roles of religion and science.
In particular, the proposition was made that "S*cience answers ‘How?’; religion answers ‘Why?’".*I took contention with this statement, proposing that science is perfectly ...
I migrated my old blog posts from CCN into this one via rss. It looks like it mostly worked, formatting is a little off so my apologies for that. I'll try to touch them up "as needed".