December 10, 2017

Fix for Citrix Receiver SSL Error 61 in Chrome on Linux

Found this here, which fortunately fixed my issue with 3 lines: sudo mv /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts_old sudo cp /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts_old/* /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/ sudo ln -s /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts

December 9, 2017

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Review

I bought Xenoblade Chronicles 2 as a fluke- I’d heard the first one was good, and there was an article prior to it coming out suggesting that it was the game to play after Breath of the Wild. Well, I’ve put a week or so into it so far and here are the takeaways. The battle system is an over-complicated mess where you don’t actually battle, you just wait for permission to press buttons.

May 9, 2017

Monoprice Maker Select Plus Upgrades

Because I don’t know when to stop, I’m going to start working on upgrades for my printer. 1. Filament Guide Apparently one of the common problems is that slack in the filament can cause tangles- the best way to work around this is a filament guide. The first filament guide I printed was loose- too loose to use by itself. The second style just didn’t print properly, even trying to print it 2 different ways.

May 7, 2017

Time to Print

After finally getting my 3d printer, I thought I should start keeping track of what I’m doing. Printer: Monoprice Maker Select Plus Standard Filament: MP Select PLA Plus+ Premium 3D Filament (white) After Unboxing it and getting everything aligned, I printed 1.gcode and 2.gcode from the SD card that came with it using the yellow PLA filament that came with it. The first was a small elephant, the second was a swan.

March 25, 2017

3d Printer Ahoy!

I’ve finally gotten the go-ahead to get a 3d printer. It’s something I’ve wanted for a long time, but I’m just now at the point where I can get into it. As I wait for my tax return, I’ve started learning how to use Freecad. So far I’ve finished the following tutorials: https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Basic_Part_Design_Tutorial https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Aeroplane https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Manual:Modeling_for_product_design https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Sketcher_tutorial (2017-03-26) It’s taken a bit of time, but I’m slowly getting there. With any luck I’ll be fabricating parts with relative ease, then can move on to sculpting with blender.

November 5, 2016

A Brief Review of Ansible Redis Modules

I’m currently investigating the best ansible module to manage redis for my server. The good news is that ansible galaxy has plenty of options; the bad news is that most of them are terrible. This is my first attempt to find the best of the bunch. For the sake of simplicity, I’m limiting my search to roles that support Enterprise_Linux (e.g. Redhat, Centos, etc). In addition, I’m going to be examining the github repos rather than the galaxy entries.

April 12, 2016

Puppet Enterprise + firewall = pain.

I’ve been tasked with setting up puppet enterprise. For numerous reasons it’s shaping up to be the project from hell (some the fault of puppet, but many that aren’t), but I’d like to share this little tidbit for posterity. The main issue I’ve run into is that our puppet server is in a highly restricted vlan with no internet access. Since puppet pulls its modules from puppetforge, this becomes problematic. The solution we came up with is to explicitly state the git repo to use for each module in the Puppetfile.

May 28, 2015

The Pain and Fury of vmware-cli on CentOS 7, Part 4

Once more into the breach? Sure. Lets see what else we can remove, and destroy some dependencies as well. Our changelist includes: removing “-d perl-Devel-StackTrace -d perl-Class-Data-Inheritable -d perl-Convert-ASN1 -d perl-Exception-Class -d perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib -d perl-Try-Tiny -d perl-Crypt-SSLeay -d perl-XML-NamespaceSupport -d perl-Archive-Zip “ adding -x “**Digest/MD5**” -x “**Crypt/OpenSSL/RSA**” -x “**/Module/**” -x “**/Test/**” -x “**/ExtUtils/**” \ updating iteration to 3 Adding perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA perl-Digest-MD5 as a tentative rpm dependencies removing symlinks via vmunlinker script And here’s what I’m going to run.

May 26, 2015

The Pain and Fury of vmware-cli on CentOS 7, Part 3

So a bit of followup since my last post; I’ve begun reinstalling icinga and my other plugins and have already ran into some resistance- perl-net-SNMP is required by morgnagplug, and has a dependency on perl-Socket6, which conflicts with the vmware-cli rpm. The Plan I’m going to do the following: snapshot my current “production-run” version of the server jump back to my “package-created” snapshot add modules listed below to the exclude list rebuild the RPM save newest RPM locally revert to the raw snapshot upload the newest version of the RPM install it test vmware-cmd If I get an error, install corresponding RPM, then repeat until it runs properly.

May 20, 2015

The Pain and Fury of vmware-cli on CentOS 7, Part 2

Last we left off with a functioning vmware-cli and no way to replicate this in ansible. Lets fix that. We’ll be using FPM to create an RPM containing all of the files that were created by the installer (including cpan modules). But first, we need to figure out which files need to be packaged. VMWare aaallmost kinda makes this easy for us- each file it installs is tracked in /etc/vmware-vcli/locations (excluding cpan files).