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Securing your linux system using iptables can be a daunting task. There are some utilities that can help, but when it comes to security a deep understanding is often very useful. Fundamentally, iptables are lists of rules, executed in order, to determine if a packet should be accepted, dropped, or …

Two years ago a friend of mine died. It struck me hard at the time, and I ended up writing this about a year later, however I haven't really shared in until now.

Time is a slippery thing. It seems like only yesterday we were all in that house on …

Introduction

Ubuntu released a stable version of Snappy Ubuntu Core on April 21. Snappy Core is a minimalist operating system along the lines of CoreOS and Project Atomic. I've been using Debian and then Ubuntu for a long time now, so I decided to take a look at Ubuntu Snappy …

It's been about 3 years since I taught my last class, and 2 years since I resigned from the University. Although there have been a number of ups and downs since then, I have not regretted the decision to leave academia, though I miss teaching and the whole idea of …

A long time ago I wrote a post about a hat born out of the frustration of all the blinking I saw at burning man. This hat would not blink, but slowly fade the LEDs on and off in a less seizure inducing pattern. I think though, "I will tell …

A long time ago, when blogs were a thing, I made a script that pulled random snippets from random blogs and ran them together into one long and strange blog entry. I decided to resurrect that idea, only this time with tweets. I put together a quick prototype that pulls …

I, along with approximately one third of eligible California voters, decided to vote yesterday. I am not particularly interested in a high voter turnout. I believe people who are pressured to vote because of "get out the vote" campaigns only end up diluting researched opinions with random noise.

One thing …

This is part 3 of a series of articles on Docker. Please feel free to read part 1 and part 2.

It's been a while since I last wrote about Docker. Part of that is because I took a vacation and drove back and forth across the country. My phone …

Burning Man is coming up, and unfortunately I wont be attending this year. However, over the past few years I have found that part of what I enjoy about Burning Man is being free of schedules. I have also found, however, that I occasionally want to go to a scheduled …

Hot on the heels of yesterday's post, I am going to address the one disappointment of that post. It installs an old version of docker! Let's celebrate Docker 1.0 by using Docker 1.0!

Really Painless on AWS

I have produced a new Cloudformation template: docker_server2.cfn.json which …