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ramblings of a sysadmin

Cloud virtual machine

Easiest way I know to create cloud virtual machine is to create a Droplet on Digital Ocean. DigialOcean

Modeline in vim

Options set in .vimrc applies to all vim files. You can use modelines to set specific vim options for one file. Modeline option must be set in .vimrc to take advantage of this option.

SSL Server Test

Run Qualys SSL Labs test to test the strength and combability of SSL certificate. SSL Server Test

Creating a blog based on Pelican

Pelican is a static website generator written in Python. It’s perfect for maintaining a tiny blog without having to mess around with databases. Static pages can be served from any Web server. Even your wireless router if you run custom firmware as Tomato by Shibby or dd-wrt. Running Ubuntu Trusty I chose to use Pelican package in repository.

Scaling in the Linux Networking Stack

Documentation for increaseing parallelism and performance for multi-processor systems. scaling.html