Hello. I make things.
Install Node.js on Debian Squeeze
—Recently I began a few Node.js projects which I roll micro VM guests to sandbox my experiments on. Unfortunately there are not maintained APT packages for Node or NPM on Squeeze. I decided since most information out there for Node/NPM installation on Debian/Ubuntu is a bit dated I’d document the quick/easy steps I used for my machine image: Install dependency
Leifs Arrival
—Leif Karaca Horwitz landed ashore of Brooklyn New York on October the 6th of 2011 at precisely 8:21am eastern, carrying a cargo of 8.9 pounds measuring 21 inches from bow to stern. Please welcome this new adventurer ! Flickr Slideshow (constantly updated) Preferred Pronunciation (for those on unsure footing): “Leaf Karaja Horwitz”
FFFound
—I discovered this guy on the glass door to our back yard late last night. Best I can tell he’s not a local; green tree frogs not being indigenous to New York City (not even in the North Slope / Prospect Park) he may have hitched a ride on hurricane Irene. Either way from what we ready he
Xen Management Made Easy
—As I’ve mentioned in other articles I switched to a Xen para-virtualized infrastructure for the Sekati Reboot. Similar to my streamlining of APT Management via control script – I created VMManager a small control script for administering Xen VPS domU’s by wrapping xm & other xen-tool binaries. It’s feature packed & yours for the taking:
Lazy APT Management
—In preparation for the Sekati Reboot I did a major infrastructure overhaul. Part of this involved rolling my own Xen dom0 on new, collocated hardware to host service separated para-virtualized domU server instances. In the process of preparing the VPS‘s a new, linux based operating system was selected; specifically Debian (where historically OpenBSD was my flavor of choice) – this
