Since moving to AWS linickx.com is suffering heavy pressure from blog-comment-spammers.
The above is a graphs of a days max CPU usage.... it ain't pretty! Whilst I formulate a plan my apologies to my visitors.
Amazon CloudWatch CPU Gauge
The free monitoring you get with Amazon CloudWatch is pretty sweet, graphs are cool but gauges are cooler!
To get this working I'm having to run a bash script via cron every 5minutes which gets the max CPU usage from AWS and then downloads an image from the google ...
OS X: Change google Chrome to Search .co.uk instead of .com
I've just gotten around to solving this little niggle; having google search google.com by default instead of google.co.uk was one of those little annoyances that I was just living with.Today I found a solution on Chrome Bug 1521 on Comment 39
- Quit Chrome
- Open \~/Library ...
Cisco: Uninstalling the CSD ActiveX Control
I'm installing Cisco Secure Desktop (CSD) for a customer and needed to re-test the installation process. Within internet explorer's (IE Version 7 & 8 ) managed add-on feature, I noticed that the CSD ActiveX Control doesn't have an uninstall feature.
To remove the control I had to close IE ...
SELINUX and OSSEC IPTables error
OSSEC is my favourite linux HIDS however now that I'm running a SELINUX secured web server I noticed that my active responses were not working after a reboot.
After enabling SELINUX, I started getting alerts about the following problem in my messages file....
Nov 11 12:16:22 amy ...Cisco ASA - First steps to a Check Point Style Policy
I've just spotted this in the Cisco ASA 8.3 release notes...
You can now configure access rules that are applied globally, as well as access rules that are applied to an interface. If the configuration specifies both a global access policy and interface-specific access policies, the interface-specific policies ...
Fedora 14 Images on EC2
Browsing the Fedora 14 release notes and I notice that the project will be creating amazon machine images (AMI's) going forward... now that's tempting!See: Fedora 14 Currently Supported EC2 Images
The only issue currently stopping me is that Fedora boxes need updates all the time, perhaps it ...
Blue Coat Certifications (BCCPA, BCCPP)
Random Pic from my BB
This post is nothing more than a test from my blackberry.
The photo attached the view of a rollercoaster I was stood under at the weekend... I hope you enjoy the scenery :-)
BlackBerry Apps
Work
have replaced my tried old Nokia E70 with a BlackBerry, here a list of
app's I've been playing with for all those I work with who've been
upgraded!- Google Mail ...
