Again, mostly a note to myself explaining how and why I set this up the way I did.

The Project

Like just about every geek, I am tasked with helping family and friends with their computers. It is easier to do this in person sitting in front of their computers, of course, but that's not possible...

This is mostly a note to myself explaining how and why I set this up the way I did.

The Project

I have a number of domains spread across multiple registrars. Some are mine, others are friends and family domains so they are spread out across multiple registrars and name service providers. This...

Last time around I was looking for a large dedicated VPS in the $100/month price range. Since then I have started deploying a lot more tiny cloud instances that cost less than $10/month to run just one or two apps. So this time around I am looking for the best bang for the buck for less $10 per mont...

I am trying to see if I should move from my own hardware sitting in a data center in Milpitas to a VPS. My main criteria is that I need at least 4 decently fast cores and at least 8G of memory. I also need about 500G of storage and low ping times from home in Silicon Valley. I was originally just tr...

Like most of my posts here, this is mostly a note to myself so I don't forget how I did it.

I Moved to Debian 9 on my desktop box at home and everything works great except I occasionally use Mega.nz and they don't provide a Debian 9 build. It would be great if they just provided a statically link...

After nearly 7 years of service I retired my Asus RT-16 router, which wasn't really a router, but a re-purposed wifi access point running AdvancedTomato. In its place I got a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite. It is Debian-based and has a dual-core 500MHz 64-Bit MIPS CPU (Cavium Octeon+), 512M of ram and a 4...

The HTPC box and various computers around the house use a mix of internal drives, external USB and eSATA drives. It is quite a mess, and backups are sporadic at best. The HTPC especially has grown organically with USB and eSATA as it needed more and more space.

So it was finally time for a dec...

While waiting for a connection in Frankfurt I had a quick look at what it would take to make ZeroMQ and libevent co-exist in PHP and it was actually quite easy. Well, easy after Mikko Koppanen added a way to get the underlying socket fd from the ZeroMQ PHP extension. To get this working, install the...

I have pieced together two Sandy Bridge machines. This entry contains my notes on the two machines. Mostly for myself to refer back to later, but it might come in handy for others along the way.

Machine 1 - Overkill HTPC

• Mythbuntu 10.10 initially but upgraded to full 11.04 when it was releas...

Last year I showed how to use pecl/oauth to write a Twitter OAuth Consumer. But what about writing the other end of that? What if you need to provide OAuth access to an API for your site? How do you do it?

Luckily John Jawed and Tjerk have put quite a bit of work into pecl/oauth lately and we...