foo-lab topology building

overview to build a virtualized network topology from the most base elements it’s as simple as starting a virtual machine with the necessary number of virtualized interfaces and interconnecting these virtual interfaces to other virtual machines or physical interfaces. while there are tools1 which will nicely automate the creation of topologies and handle the lifecycle of VMs. all of these are effectively placing a nice wrapper around the following process....

May 20, 2019 · sulrich

pyenv reminder

you can have multiple pythons enabled at the same time so that those applications which you run which make assumptions about python2 being available work. (i’m looking at you gsutil and gcloud) elmo(~)% pyenv global 3.7.1 2.7.15 elmo(~)% pyenv versions system * 2.7.15 (set by /Users/sulrich/.pyenv/version) 2.7.15/envs/foo 2.7.5 * 3.7.1 (set by /Users/sulrich/.pyenv/version) 3.7.2 foo elmo(~)% which python2 /Users/sulrich/.pyenv/shims/python2 elmo(~)% which python3 /Users/sulrich/.pyenv/shims/python3 elmo(~)% which python /Users/sulrich/.pyenv/shims/python elmo(~)% python --version Python 3....

April 15, 2019 · sulrich

disable IPv6 on a specific interface (linux)

because i have to google these sysctl settings every … time.. /etc/sysctl.conf # disable IPv6 on the wlan0 interface net.ipv6.conf.wlan0.disable_ipv6=1 # insufficient on its lonesome net.ipv6.conf.wlan0.autoconf=0 # don't forget this .. it’s important to disable autoconf because it will still pick up the RAs for learning the default and this may not deterministically let you do what you want. replace wlan0 with the interface you want to starve.

March 29, 2019 · sulrich

useful stats for the new year

we’re wrapping up a couple weeks of holiday and one of the things that this always prompts is a bit of introspection about what’s useful and what’s not useful. of particular interest to me is culling cruft which brings me no value in terms of actionable information sources or things which manifest themselves as generating todo load. one of these sources for potential todo or mental load is the unread figure in my RSS reader....

January 3, 2013 · steve ulrich

pushing tasks into omnifocus from mutt

i have an entirely text based work flow. when i’m in (neo)mutt, i don’t want to have to touch my mouse or divert from the message in hand to push something into my omnifocus inbox. this is the simplest way to get this stuff into omnifocus. ...

June 22, 2012 · steve ulrich