wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86\_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
yum -y install apache2 php5 php5-json php-xml php-mbstring php5-zip php5-gd
yum -y install php5-sqlite curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev php5-curl php-pd

php5-sqlite isn’t available in the repos I use. I wasn’t able to find it elsewhere either. Per this page, I have to install it by source. cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ wget…

I have a love-hate feeling about “predictions” about the upcoming year, especially tech predictions.  I don’t like media sensationalism of any kind, and a lot of the tech predctions are just that, sensational, extreme talk to draw in readers or viewers.  I’m choosing to go down a more subtle path, these are things I’ve thought about lately but will likely forget in the upcoming year, unless they actually happen, in which case I’d likely do an “ah, I…

Securing SSH is a form or art.  It’s often debated, much like blocking all ICMP packets (which I normally disagree with).  If you need good proof, read these posts by Bob Plankers.  There is a camp that likes to promote moving to a non-standard port.  There is a faction that likes to block it completely except from a handful of hosts.  Then there are those that like to leave it open all together.  Running naked in the digital jungle. I tend to err on the side of blocking except for jump…

Like many others, I rely heavily on my mobile devices to get my work done.  I’ve been a user of the iPhone since the original, with a year on a Nexus one android device.  I don’t have a strong preference and there are no “religious arguments” to be had with me on platform.  In fact, I’d probably choose PamlOS if I had a choice, it’s simple elegance and stability were a comfort to me…it just didn’t make it to modernization. ..but I digress.…

For a long time I ran a blog called tech.buraglio.com that was a self hosted wordpress site. After having kids and getting a bit busier at work, I decided to move everything that I had been hosting (images, scripts, hacks, blogs and DNS) to “the cloud”. I managed to do this for everything but my primary DNS resolver, which I had always intended to keep, and one wordpress blog that I hosted for someone else.

There has been a flurry of discussion on SDN in the WAN lately, specifically, why and how.  Brent Salsbury laid out a few use cases here.  The why seems pretty straightforward.  I do believe it will happen, however, the how is the interesting part.  Admittedly, I’m a tad of a greenhorn in the SDN space, I’ve made it work in a lab, I participate as much as I can in the working groups and I attempt (poorly) to keep up.   SDN, and likely OpenFlow, is in our roadmap at work.  Doing SDN…

Recently, there was a thread over at Packet Pushers about what folks use for their daily workflow.  I quickly realized that my setup is pretty simple (as I like it) and relied on a large amount of terminal based tools, which makes sense since I have been a UNIX (or UNIX based) OS user since my migration from the original MacOS back in the 1990s.  Anyway, Since I wrote most of this up already, I thought I’d post it here:

     Every year there is an international conference for High Performance Computing, or HPC as it is often called.  This is a bit of a niche in that it’s something that many enterprises and researchers need but don’t do themselves and so many don’t have a grasp as to what all is invoved.  It’s a specialized,  potentially expensive and very different environment as well as mindset than the general sysadmin or network engineer will ever see.  The compute power is rated on…

If I had my perfect world where I lived in a gumdrop house with lollypop trees and everything smelled like butterfly kisses, here is what I would like to see in WAN networking gear.   I can build a list for LAN and edge gear as well.  It’s not a golden rocket ship I’m looking for.  OK, maybe it is.

    As I sit here thinking if this site is worth my time, some words that someone said to me recently ring true. “Take from things you’re doing every day” is what Brent Salisbury of networkstatic.net said to me. He was right.
    …And it was why I originally started this site, in a way. The original goal was to make a site I could take notes on and possibly help out someone trying to solve the same issues as me or look at something from the same perspective I had.  I do…