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Hi,

I’ve always appreciated how open and receptive you’ve been with the electorate in your district.

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(..sigh) There’s a lot I like about RedHat. I like the fact that they’re worth more than a billion dollars as an OpenSource company. I like how they’ve been in the Linux game for a long time, and keep finding new ways to innovate and expand. I like how they have a competitive, yet accessible application stack, that runs on a wide variety of hardware. Their partner program, and resources are outstanding, especially when compared to other software vendors. I like a lot about RedHat. I just don’t like their operating system.

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Man, I’ve been busy… I’ve recently been promoted to being a System’s Administrator! This has forced me to program a few BASH scripts. This one is for a customer that wants a managed system, but wants to be able to add websites at will. It’s pretty simple, and relies on an existing example.com template. Why example.com? Because I follow RFCs dammit! The template allows me to adjust the Apache specific settings, without recoding the script.  A little REGEX here, and a pipe to sed there, some error checking, formatting and a dash of some SUDO magic and voila! The customer doesn’t need to email/call me to add a website.  Sure beats paying for a crappy control panel

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Maybe I’m in a children’s book mood while I wait for my daughter to be born, but that title popped into my head. It’s been awhile, sorry.

Anyways, I’ve got a semi-production set of virtual servers running on an ESXi machine, and I thought it was about time to firewall them off. One problem, firewalls are expensive. So I decided to set up a virtual firewall running pfSense.

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My rhetoric isn’t great, but it’s Monday.

To Whom it May Concern,

My father was a chemist, with several patents issued on the behalf of a large company. He used to talk about the patent process; how rigorous it was, how important to protecting innovation, and how fair it was. Unfortunately, this process, a cornerstone of encouraging American ingenuity, has been subverted by powerful companies to stifle innovation and competition.

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So I put a hypervisor in your hypervisor, so you can virtualize while you virtualize.

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Elastic Sky X. That’s what ESX stands for. Crazy, right?

Well, more playing means more caveats

First, something I forgot to mention yesterday. To get ESX working in Ubuntu, Workstation needs to be able to put the vmnet interfaces into promiscuous mode. That requires allowing the user or group that you use to start Workstation to have read/write permissions over the vmnet devices in /dev. A simple chmod will do the trick.

Now, back to our story…

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Requirements:
VMware vSphere, lots of RAM, a decent amount of disk space, a fairly recent copy of 64bit Windows (I used Server 2008 R2) ESX and vSphere Server iso and exe files. Iron will. Patience. Some sort of NAS distribution (I used FreeNAS.)

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“Do not touch the cross. Do not approach the altar. You sacrifice to Him nothing but chickens – no geese or foreskin. No idols or veneration with His chickens. Use the pyre, no exceptions. If He attempts to impart anything to you via burning bush, do not accept it. Do you understand me?”

First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?

He becomes Christian…

No. That is incidental. What is the first and principal thing he does? What needs does he serve by becoming christian?

Anger, um, social acceptance, and, huh, sexual frustrations, sir…
No! He covets. That is his nature. And how do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet? Make an effort to answer now.

No. We just…

No. We begin by coveting what we see every day. Don’t you feel eyes moving over your body, Clarice? And don’t your eyes seek out the things you want?

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Is this Lecter’s handwriting? “Clarice, doesn’t this random scattering of biblical quotes seem desperately random – like the elaborations of a bad liar? Ta, Hannibal Lecter.”

“Desperately random.” What does he mean?

Not random at all, maybe. Like there’s some pattern here…?

But there is no pattern or the parishioners would’ve nailed it. They’re even found in random order.

Random because of the one verse. The one he shouted out.

Oh, 3:16, from… John. First sacrament taken, third quote found. Why?

‘Cause he didn’t drift. He shouted it out.

What did Lecter say about…?First principles”?

Simplicity…

What does this guy do, he “covets”. How do we first start to covet?

“We covet what we see -”

every day.”

Hot damn, Clarice.

He knew Him.”

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“Believe me, you don’t want Jesus Christ inside your head.

Three Lunches for the executive offices in the sky
Seven for middle management stuck on the phone
Nine for salesmen, doomed to lie
One for the CEO who eats alone
In the land of Mordor where the Gyros lie
One lunch to feed them all, One to then unwind them
One lunch to make their bowels crawl, and on the toilet bind them
In the land of Mordor where the Gyros lie.