James J
Sysadmin/Engineer/Developer
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Sysadmin/Engineer/Developer
Overview A friend of my wife recently lost her husband to a rare form of Cancer. From diagnosis...
What do we want to containerize This can be done with whatever binary you choose. You will just...
Overview Often we find ourselves in a situation where we have to share a password. But how do you...
CryptoCurrency: Building ccminer in Ubuntu 17.10 In a previous post, I complained about how impossible it was to...
VMware: How to install RVC with RVM For most of my life, I have preferred the command line...
CryptoCurrency: Building a Rig Part 3 So, this has been quite a learning experience. Don’t mix between your...
CryptoCurrency: Building a Rig Part 2 As expected, dedicated CPU mining didn’t last very long. Verium(VRM) spiked, which...
CryptoCurrency: Building a Rig Part 1 Recently the price of BitCoin has skyrocketed. This led to a lot...
CentOS 6: Upgrade GCC to 5.3.1 Install CentOS SCL repo. yum -y install centos-release-scl Install the actual...
Entropy When the topic of /dev/random and /dev/urandom come up, you always hear this word: “Entropy”. Everyone seems to...
History Smurf.c(by TFreak) hit the spotlight 20 years ago this month(Oct 1997). To give you an idea of the...
Backstory My apologies in advance I will likely use the names Softlayer and IBM Bluemix interchangably… For years I...
Being a good sysadmin, you should comb through your logs periodically… Even better, get a log analyzer. With that...
The common use-case here is that you updated to ESX 6.5 and now you get this error when connecting:...
Strace is one of those tools that can be quite intimidating. But if you dont know how to use...
Dealing with quite a few different versions of VMware, I get quite a bit of indirect support work. Recently,...
While working on some issues with performance, we needed a bit more granularity than the 10 minute default that...
Set the stage: Recently while deploying an OVA that I had deployed many times before, I came across this error....
This is not intended to be an extensive guide to building rpms. Although, if there is interest, that can be...
I have an old drive with existing LVM data. The drive is plugged in as /dev/sdb. [root@bt ~]# fdisk -l...