Networking tidbits

Not sure how many people read these posts … actually, wordpress blogs do keep track of your visitor stats … here’s a quick peak. In light of that, this post is mainly for myself to remember a few networking related tasks and commands: HTTPS via bash/terminal Here are some useful commands I found for interacting… Continue reading Networking tidbits

Bringing the cloud back home

Cloud computing is the way of the future, right? Well, yes, but it’s also expensive. $55/month expensive. That adds up year-after-year, so I decided to purchase a server I could get keep running here at the house to bring all my websites back home (literally) … being careful to stay within the confines of our… Continue reading Bringing the cloud back home

End of an era

I started a combined Masters/PhD program at the amazing UC Davis Department of Computer Science in the Fall of 1999. As a grad student, I not only had access to the lab computers, but also access to a folder named “public_html” in my user account which was configured to serve up a website under the… Continue reading End of an era

DNSmasq-uerading

ATT Fiber has been absolutely fantastic. Zero downtime for the first month and incredibly fast. One of the challenges is ATT is making money off of DNS errors. I don’t have a problem with that at all, but they have locked down their modem/router combo so that you cannot change the DNS server to force… Continue reading DNSmasq-uerading