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June 3, 2018

Fedora on Dell XPS 9360 and 9560

Note: This is an older guide for the XPS 9560 and 9360. For the 9570 and 7590 use our new XPS 7590 guide. I don’t travel for work much, but I travel enough that I need a semi-portable computer. For the last three years, I’ve lugged around a Dell Precision M6800. I’ve always found Precisions […]

April 5, 2015

Multiple EC2 Network Interfaces on Red Hat / CentOS 7

If you’re not running Amazon Linux with the built in network interface management tools, adding multiple ENIs on the same subnet can be a confusing experience.  We use this sometimes to run multiple elastic IPs on separate network interfaces so we can bind to them separately. We worked through this with Amazon support recently and […]

March 11, 2015

Drop An Index To Speed Up AdRotate WordPress Plugin

We have a client that keeps encountering a tremendous load on their WordPress Mysql database despite a trivial amount of normal traffic on their blog and lots of tuning that eliminated most normal database access. We tracked this down to the AdRotate plugin, and specifically the tracking callbacks to the admin-ajax interface in WordPress. Each […]

March 6, 2015

Schedule EC2 Instance Start and Stop

If you use EC2 instances for tasks that only need to be performed during work hours, it can be challenging and annoying to manually start up and shutdown instances when you need them.  There are services that can handle this for you (Skeddly, Ylastic, etc) but they cost money and are overkill for small companies […]

December 31, 2014

OSSEC Rules for OpenVPN

We use OpenVPN and OSSEC together regularly. Unfortunately, OSSEC doesn’t do any useful interpretation of OpenVPN events out of the box. Instead, you’ll wade through a stream of event id 1002s in your email to see what’s going on with OpenVPN. We recently sat down and drafted a custom decoder and a few custom rules […]

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