Red Hat Certified Architect - Finally Finally am able to post this; it's been many years(!) in the making. Sadly the enjoyment doesn't get to last too long as I need to start renewing a number of my certs
International Dialing with Twilio and FreePBX Just some quick notes on how I went about getting International Dialing working with my personal FreePBX server and a Twilio Elastic SIP Trunk. Twilio requires E.164 formatted numbers so both the
Blog Update Finally have gotten around to updating the blog here with the latest version of Ghost along with a new theme.. Here's to working on keeping it more updated for the next year.
Even More Malwares! Well, my malware project at themalwares.com hit the 6 million mark sometime last week.. the scrapers and such are continuing to add new samples all the time. On top of that the
perf-tools for RHEL 6 I've forked Brendan Gregg's excellent perf-tools repository in order to put in various fixes to ensure compatibility with RHEL/CentOS 6. The fixes shouldn't cause any issues with other non-RHEL 6 releases however
linux Chinese BitTorrent DDoS Mitigation Here lately there's been lots of talk about the Great Firewall of China DNS posioning and inadvertently (?) DDoS'ing a servers all over.. The typical requests look similar to this: 125.77.141.10
malware themalwares.com Been quite a long time coming, but I've finally got a site put together that allows you to search my malware samples. Visit it at the link below: themalwares.com
malware New Malware Script Just commited the new script to submit malware samples to VirusTotal and save the results in MongoDB; find it here. Also have cleaned up the README on the MalwareTools repo to make things
linux Ugly one-liner for gzip'ed gzip files Had to rig up this one-liner to un-screw a situation were logrotate was configured to rotate and compress all files in a directory, including ones that had already been rotated and compressed; this
linux Converting VMAX NAA Values Quick bash script I put together to convert VMAX NAAs into the values seen within PowerPath on Linux hosts. There's a PowerShell script floating around the internet to do the same thing but
linux HBA/bfa bio.c panic on boot Came across a server with dual Broadcom/QLogic 815 HBAs that was failing to boot with the following error and dropping into debug mode: LOG Firmware heartbeat failure at 0 LOG bfa panic
linux raxmon - Malformed Response From Github Issues Page When using the latest version of raxmon (a.k.a. Rackspace Monitoring CLI) you might get the following error: $ raxmon-entities-list Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/local/
linux apachectl Alternate Location Quick snippet for when Apache isn't listening on 127.0.0.1 or on an alternative port. On RHEL/CentOS add the following to /etc/sysconfig/httpd: STATUSURL=http://<IP>:<
aws awscli 'unknown encoding' error Just installed the AWS CLI on my Mac and encountered the 'unknown encoding' error when I first tried to use it: $ aws ec2 describe-instances unknown encoding: $ This is caused by the default encoding
linux Fixing Cloud Servers stuck at gPXE Boot With Rackspace Cloud Servers there's currently an issue with PVHVM resizing images smaller that causes them to lose their MBR; when this happens you'll see the following in the Java console: If you
New Blog Software Been lazy here recently updating the blog, mainly because Octopress was a pain to create a new post in (see http://octopress.org/docs/blogging/). I've moved the blog over to Ghost and
linux Red Hat Certified Over the last few months I've been working towards passing the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam and I did last week. I already passed my Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam
linux salt-cloud & RackConnect The development versions of salt-cloud and the libcloud project from the Apache Foundation recently added support for deploying RackConnected instances on the Rackspace Public Cloud. Here's how to get it up and running
linux bind97 on cPanel Some Perl module hacking to allow you to use the bind97 packages on CentOS 5 with cPanel. First removing the normal bind packages and installing the bind97 ones: cp -Rf /var/named/ /var/
malware OMG Malwares!!! Here's a post thats been a very long time coming. The process of sumbitting all my malware samples to VirusTotal has finally completed with a grand total of 2,683,801 unique samples
archiveteam Archiving Time Well its happening once again, another site has decided to close down/re-brand/whatever, delete all the data and pretend like nobody ever actually used it. Naturally whenever a situation like this goes
linux Linux Fun Today was honestly one of the most mentally exhausting days that I've had in a long time. Rewarding sure as I learned quite a bit, but damn taxing as well. Probably didn't help
random Projects Update As a somewhat typical computer/linux nerd, I've always got a few different and interesting to me personal projects going on. Here's the rundown on some of them. Mate on Fedora Somewhat prompted