linux ← A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way

I’ve been labelled a *nix fanboy! I win!

Oct

2013

Apparently I am now a linux zealot because I want to ssh easily into linux vms: @jsnover nothing irks me more than *nix fanboys slamming CMD. It feels like wilfull ignorance of #PowerShell. I love *nix, but not bash!— Reed M. Wiedower (@CTO_Reed) October 10, 2013 A brief summary of my daily computing environment: I ...

Experimenting with CoreOS

Sep

2013

CoreOS seems like a very nice idea — a minimal linux kernel with just enough libs to run and manage containers. So a container-ready linux kernel, systemd to launch and maintain containers, and etcd to communicate settings (key-value pairs) across containers. The project is motivated by high scale datacenter needs, but i think it is ...

I’ve been stuck in linux startup morass this week

Sep

2013

Kickstart and Anaconda. Grub. Syslinux/isolinux. UEFI boot vs BIOS boot. USB key boot vs ISO image boot. Secure boot. Virtual Machine boot vs physicalized boot. Building packages. Integration with Puppet/Chef/Ansible/Salt. What a mess of configuration parameters, configuration files and syntaxes, constrained execution environments, etc. Design piled on top of design on top of design. Clearly ...

How do you permanently delete files from Github, use ansible to modify a file, and other nits

Aug

2013

Random things I’ve stumbled on in the last week, and that I am sure I will need to know again. …permanently delete some files from Github? Like when you check in something to the wrong project accidentally. …temporarily show a localhost web service to someone? Horribly dangerous but sometimes useful. …peek inside really big files ...

ASUS Zenbook UX31a and Ubuntu — seem like a fine pairing

Oct

2012

I need to be able to do some Linux-based dev work while mobile. I’ve limped along using OSX and also using VirtualBox, but neither of them are really optimal, notably for ARM-targeted work. For instance, building a Raspberry Pi kernel and then emulating it under OSX is very very tricky, and doing it in a ...