Author Archives: DocDock

The carrot and the stick

Posted on April 27, 2018 by DocDock

Google pushes web towards more security It isn’t really news any longer, Google is pushing to secure the web.  Just like any parent they have decided that the carrot isn’t working out quite as planned and now they are using … Continue reading →

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command line fun – finding security problems with find

Posted on April 9, 2018 by DocDock

I cannot actually remember how it happened.  I wasn’t paying enough attention and was viewing one of my scripts on production.  When I was finished I did what I always do in vi – I exited the script using : … Continue reading →

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AWS – Simple Notification Service

Posted on March 25, 2018 by DocDock

AWS can provide you a LOT of functionality.  Some of what it can provide is so powerful because you can automate given actions.  It isn’t necessary to monitor your EC2 instances to see if your machines are running at a … Continue reading →

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don’t forget to periodically vote with your wallet

Posted on March 14, 2018 by DocDock

I don’t usually purchase any Windows software as I am a “Linux” guy.  I guess it makes sense as most Windows software packages wouldn’t work on your distribution even with a lot of prayers and the most current version of … Continue reading →

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Wireless Access point – EDIMAX

Posted on March 6, 2018 by DocDock

I don’t really feel the need to pimp out various hardware manufacturers but we just recently moved and our wireless network no longer reached all of the rooms. The goal was to have seamless internet across the apartment without having … Continue reading →

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AWS – Autoscaling

Posted on February 26, 2018 by DocDock

The cloud isn’t really the cloud without some additional functionality beyond the ability of creating a virtual machine to run your software. The cloud isn’t just somebody else’s data center either.  A short definition might be. A Cloud solution is … Continue reading →

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AWS – Your own machine image

Posted on February 9, 2018 by DocDock

Until you start to actually use Amazon storage (elastic block store) you end up repeating yourself a lot getting your machine images into a working state.  This  might be something really simple such as adding your world class html code … Continue reading →

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AWS – Setting up EC2

Posted on February 3, 2018 by DocDock

Elastic compute cloud A EC2 – an elastic compute cloud – is just a simple virtual machine.  Amazon does have a lot of really interesting ways of using virtual machines to solve problems.  The first step is to create an … Continue reading →

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AWS – Setting up a VPC

Posted on January 22, 2018 by DocDock

I would rather talk about the actual compute engine (EC2) but that oddly enough you need a network before you can really create one.  Rather than talking about the default VPC I will discuss about the networking a bit right … Continue reading →

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AWS – Cloud computing with Amazon

Posted on January 12, 2018 by DocDock

I recently started looking at cloud computing by looking at OpenStack.  OpenStack allows you to take a lot of common hardware and create your own cloud server on your own hardware.  Once the software is setup it is easy for … Continue reading →

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