Dan Williams deedubs

Running SmartOS under vmware Fusion

From http://blog.smartcore.net.au/smartos-the-basics/

Start by downloading the latest live image
Save this file in a permanent place since your setup will need to boot from it permanently
When you run the new VM wizard, select "Continue without disk" on the first screen of the wizard.
Select Sun Solaris / Solaris 10 64-bit on the next screen.

Client-side SSL

For excessively paranoid client authentication.

Updated Apr 5 2019:

because this is a gist from 2011 that people stumble into and maybe you should AES instead of 3DES in the year of our lord 2019.

some other notes:

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Instrument Anything in Rails 3

With Rails 3.0 released a few weeks ago I've migrated a few apps and I'm constantly finding useful new improvements. One such improvement is the ability to log anything in the same way that Rails internally logs ActiveRecord and ActionView. By default Rails 3 logs look slightly spiffier than those produced by Rails 2.3: (notice the second line has been cleaned up)

Started GET "/" for 127.0.0.1 at Mon Sep 06 01:07:11 -0400 2010
  Processing by HomeController#index as HTML
  User Load (0.2ms)  SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE (`users`.`id` = 3) LIMIT 1
  CACHE (0.0ms)  SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE (`users`.`id` = 3) LIMIT 1

Rendered layouts/_nav.html.erb (363.4ms)

	user www-data;
	worker_processes 4;

	error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
	pid /var/run/nginx.pid;

	events {
	worker_connections 1024;
	}

	/*
	*
	* There is now an Angular directive, filter and provider!
	* It can be found here: https://github.com/i18next/ng-i18next
	* ng-i18next is now part of the i18next rganization!
	*
	*/

	/*
	* AngularJS directive for using i18next (http://jamuhl.github.com/i18next)

	cd ~
	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get install unzip curl python-software-properties -y
	#sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"
	sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/java
	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin -y

	wget https://github.com/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.18.7.tar.gz -O elasticsearch.tar.gz
	tar -xf elasticsearch.tar.gz

	easterEgg.BadWorder.list={
	"4r5e":1,
	"5h1t":1,
	"5hit":1,
	a55:1,
	anal:1,
	anus:1,
	ar5e:1,
	arrse:1,
	arse:1,

	// Main controller for the journalist workspace. Orchestrates subviews.
	dc.controllers.Workspace = Backbone.Controller.extend({

	routes : {
	'help/:page': 'help',
	'help': 'help'
	},

	// Initializes the workspace, binding it to <body>.
	initialize : function() {

	{
	"devel": false,
	"undef": true
	}