The Unix Oriental
Placed quite appropriately in the "Security" category - my favorite Oriental cocktail recipe. Distinguishing it from the classic preparation, are absence of sweet vermouth...
Multi-Dimensional Arrays in Bash
Bash does not support multi-dimensional arrays, but there is a way to imitate this functionality, if you absolutely have to.
As a quick example, here's...
Asciinema Notes
Asciinema is an awesome tool for recording your console sessions. It's great for documenting processes and, in general, showing people how shit works: one...
Measure DNS Server Performance
This is not an entirely proper way to benchmark a DNS server, but, in a pinch, it should give you some idea of its...
The Facebook Fracas
The Facebook privacy saga is getting ridiculous. You’re using a free service that you signed up for - nobody was holding a gun to...
Generating and Running Multiple Scripts
Admittedly, this has a limited range of practical applications and is more of a scripting exercise. The command shown here generates a bunch of...
Removing Chef Server Installation
Just a quick note on how to completely remove (more or less) Chef server installation from a CentOS/RHEL box.
There are a bunch of bits...
QNAP NAS Performance Analysis
The QNAP Resource Monitor utility available via the Web UI provides a lot of useful functionality with good visual presentation. However, sometimes you need...
Auto-Update /etc/hosts
This was a silly solution to a silly problem, but may come in handy in the future for other things. A user process was...