New Toys coming
Got news that my new BananaPi is shipped yesterday on email. Looking forward to tinkering again!
Project fever
Ok, got a few things on the excitement list * Solar power for next Wednesday to the house! Going to set up a 4.5 KWh hybrid system with storage (phase 2). * Ordered a BananaPi Pro kit today from GPIO Aus. .. minus the SD Card * Set up some…
Project revivals
Been a while since I was inspired on the tech front but now that I got a job I can afford side projects again. Looking at: * Raspberry Pi 2 * Solar Raspberry Pi 2 * Xen? * Learning Puppet * Using it to deploy new VMs. * Getting iSCSI…
New Job
Started new Job on 2nd March 2015 - Fresh new start on the mundane side, followed by a magickal start on 24th March 2015. Tried out for SkyDragons Smite team, but that didn't go too far A new chapter is starting for faerie.cx as well.
Ingress 4/9/14
Followed the portals up to St Helena last night, and a few up north. Tagged and ran the numbers late. As the shadows draped, it was a great time to harvest the XM.
Ingress
Yes, I'm stuck into this now. It's a good 'timewaster' but has a social RL element. Only 2 wks in and I'm level 7. More to come agents..
Another day, another exploit
Today, it's more of the same - Wordpress/Drupal gets to be the flavour of the moment with a memory DoS via XMLRPC (again). This time, not a brute force but a memory expansion bomb. Full details below: http://mashable.com/2014/08/06/wordpress-xml-blowup-dos/
CentOS 7
CentOS7 is out, with shiny new features of LXC, and stuff.. but the one feature that stands out is "in place upgrade". Guess what? it's hidden inside a RHEL page that requires registration. So much for 'useful'. So far: * CentOS 7 installs on XenServer 6.2, but fails to boot…
Death of applications
Freshmeat.. *cough* freecode is dead Gallery3 is dead Truecrypt is dead What else to die next?
~FaerieCX~ : The new website goes live
Yep, the website has moved from custom homebrew to a proper CMS. Only going to keep the main server stuff here, the rest goes to the blog sites.