Random musings

Vagrant Splunk Box

I recommend Splunk a lot. I’ve been using it since about 2007, in varying degrees of …

A Linux kickstart helper in Perl

I wrote a short while ago about using iPXE with a URL to help booting multiple versions of …

Using iPXE with a URL to kickstart Linux

Although kickstarting Linux is pretty simple, it can be frustrating if you’re trying …

Perl LWP 'error:14094410:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert handshake failure'

Lots and lots of solutions for this one out there in Google land, but it turned out to be …

The simplicity of Perl Mojolicious for web get extractions

I’ve been using Mojolicious quite a bit this year, and I love it.

VMware Perl SDK error 'Server version unavailable..'

Whilst working with the VMware Perl SDK this morning I came across this error:

Problems installing DBD::mysql on OS X Snow Leopard

After a colleague showed me the excellent MySQL Workbench the other day I thought …

Patching a live Solaris 10 system with LU, ZFS, and PCA

Sun have done some work in recent times with liveupgrade - the last time I looked at it, a …

Stuck as 'scheduled' Wordpress posts

I recently edited a post on a Wordpress blog and discovered that trying to change the …

rm -rf on Solaris ZFS filesystem doesn't remove directories

This is one of the weirdest problems I’ve had for a while. On one of the servers I …