Anarchy in the OfficeAnarchy in the Office
Some of the best examples I’ve seen of anarchy working have been in corporate environments. This doesn’t mean that they were perfect or even as good as a theoretical system[...]
Process MonitoringProcess Monitoring
Since forking the Mon project to etbemon [1] I’ve been spending a lot of time working on the monitor scripts. Actually monitoring something is usually quite easy, deciding what to[...]
Converting Mbox to MaildirConverting Mbox to Maildir
MBox is the original and ancient format for storing mail on Unix systems, it consists of a single file per user under /var/spool/mail that has messages concatenated. Obviously performance is[...]
Observing ReliabilityObserving Reliability
Last year I wrote about how great my latest Thinkpad is [1] in response to a discussion about whether a Thinkpad is still the “Rolls Royce” of laptops. It was[...]
QEMU for ARM ProcessesQEMU for ARM Processes
I’m currently doing some embedded work on ARM systems. Having a virtual ARM environment is of course helpful. For the i586 class embedded systems that I run it’s very easy[...]
Running a Tor RelayRunning a Tor Relay
I previously wrote about running my SE Linux Play Machine over Tor [1] which involved configuring ssh to use Tor. Since then I have installed a Tor hidden service for[...]
Apache Mesos on DebianApache Mesos on Debian
I decided to try packaging Mesos for Debian/Stretch. I had a spare system with a i7-930 CPU, 48G of RAM, and SSDs to use for building. The i7-930 isn’t really[...]
Forking Mon and DKIM with Mailing ListsForking Mon and DKIM with Mailing Lists
I have forked the “Mon” network/server monitoring system. Here is a link to the new project page [1]. There hasn’t been an upstream release since 2010 and I think we[...]
More KVM Modules ConfigurationMore KVM Modules Configuration
Last year I blogged about blacklisting a video driver so that KVM virtual machines didn’t go into graphics mode [1]. Now I’ve been working on some other things to make[...]
SE Linux in Debian/StretchSE Linux in Debian/Stretch
Debian/Stretch has been frozen. Before the freeze I got almost all the bugs in policy fixed, both bugs reported in the Debian BTS and bugs that I know about. This[...]