An extremely frustrating Apache error – uploads failing silently at exactly 20 seconds
RequestReadTimeout header=300-360,MinRate=500 body=300-360,MinRate=500 The above block of text took hours to find, and nearly drove me crazy. I’ve been working on getting file uploads to work on an AWS PHP application sitting behind an Application Load Balancer, and we simply could not figure out the issue. At first, we investigated PHP settings like post_max_size, upload_max_filesize, …
Silly .profile tricks for EC2 instances
Assuming you have your AWS CLI configured properly, and have the “jq” package installed, this is an easy way to SSH to your EC2 instances, and can detect/start an EC2 instance if you attempt to SSH to one that is stopped. Place the below in ~/.profile, and then source it with “. ~/.profile” (or close …
Upgrade from Fedora 27 to 28, without removing Steam
From https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1553646 dnf install nss-pem-1.0.3-9.fc28 –releasever=28 dnf system-upgrade –releasever=28 download
“Fake news”, Marshall McLuhan predicted that too
“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military & civilian participation.” – Marshall McLuhan, 1970
Hello WordPress, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence Silence being me not posting for a while, but still having thoughts of complex ideas to post… I guess with …
Updating your fancy Outlook signature in OWA, the hard way
As a Linux user at a large organization and stuck with Exchange as the back end e-mail environment, I unfortunately have to use Outlook quite often to communicate and view meeting invites and so on. For those who have used Outlook Web Access on Linux, you know that Chrome isn’t officially supported for the full experience, …
Fixing a bluetooth headset with a shred of paper towel
I’ve bought quite a bit from Geek lately, which if you’re not familiar, is basically a direct to consumer way for Chinese manufacturers/wholesalers to sell to US buyers. Honestly I think things like headphones and cell phone cases and so on are vastly overpriced for most brands, but are still made in China much of …
Taskomatic troubleshooting, systems always show available updates – Spacewalk 2.3 / Satellite 5.x
Lately one of my projects at work is to get a patch management solution in place for our RHEL/CentOS Linux systems. Since Red Hat’s Satellite product doesn’t manage CentOS systems, and because there is no easy method of configuring the pieces that Satellite 6 is based on, we decided to go with Spacewalk. For longer …
Running Linux commands on many servers at a time
I’ve been busy at work lately… setting up a new patch process to include implementation, migration from our old, counter-intuitive system (apt on Red Hat servers, :|), so lots of registering systems with Spacewalk has been necessary (until we finish a Puppet module that is). During our regularly scheduled patching, we have to do blocks …
Using getmail to retrieve e-mail and dump it to MySQL
Recently I worked on an eLance side project after hours to retrieve e-mails that included CSV files from a GMail account and was pretty happy with the outcome, so I wanted to share it here. The script prompts for configuration options (continuing if a config file already exists), installs the getmail and ripmime packages if …
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- Senate Republicans are wrestling with a dilemma over witnesses in Trump's trial in a tussle that risks antagonizing him and fueling claims of a cover-up January 29, 2020Senate Republicans are wrestling with a momentous dilemma over whether to call witnesses in Donald Trump's trial in a closed-door tussle that risks antagonizing the President and fueling Democrat claims of a cover-up.
- Analysis: Republicans will find a way to ignore John Bolton's incriminating revelations January 29, 2020Ever since details from John Bolton's manuscript leaked to The New York Times, it seemed like it would be the smoking gun that would push Republicans to at least entertain the idea of hearing from witnesses like Bolton at President Donald Trump's Senate trial, if not ultimately support removing Trump from office.
- Next step: Republicans aim to lock in votes against witnesses
- Watch: Cooper throws cold water on GOP arguments January 29, 2020CNN's Anderson Cooper discusses the Senate impeachment trial against President Trump, calling out some of the GOP senators who don't wish to bring forth witnesses.
- Schumer: 10 to 12 GOPers 'know in their hearts' witnesses should testify January 29, 2020Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday said there are 10 to 12 Senate Republicans "who know in their hearts" there should be witnesses and documents in President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial ahead of a looming vote later this week.
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- Apple posts record quarter as iPhone sales make a comebackIt appears iPhone sales really are on the mend.
- Atari is opening its own hotels in eight US citiesAtari might be best known for 1970s video games and its money problems, but now the brand is opening its own chain of branded hotels. The first one, in Phoenix, Arizona, will start construction in early fall, and should be finished in about two years.
- UK will allow Huawei to help build its 5G network despite US pressureThe British government said Tuesday that it will allow China's Huawei to help build the country's next generation of super-fast wireless networks, a decision that could undermine trade and intelligence ties with the United States.
- Huawei just dodged a bullet in the UK. Europe is the next showdownHuawei has been granted a limited role in building Britain's 5G network, allowing the company to maintain its presence in a crucial market despite US efforts to rein in its growth.
- MacKenzie Bezos dumped a ton of Amazon stockMacKenzie Bezos, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has unloaded about $370 million worth of Amazon shares since their divorce last year.