Today I wandered into a bit of a rat hole discovering how to export data from OpenStack Cinder volumes when you don’t have admin permissions, and I thought it was worth documenting here so I remember it for next time. Let’s assume that you have a Cinder volume named “child1”, which is a 64gb volume…
Category: Google
Configuring load balancing and location headers on Google Cloud
I have a need at the moment to know where my users are in the world. This helps me to identify what compute resources to serve their request with in order to reduce the latency they experience. So how do you do that thing with Google Cloud? The first step is to setup a series…
Setting up VXLAN between nested virt VMs on Google Compute Engine
I wanted to play with a VXLAN mesh between VMs on more than one hypervisor node, but the setup for VXLAN ended up being a separate post because it was a bit long. Read that post first if you want to follow the instructions here. Now that we have a working VXLAN mesh between our…
Setting up VXLAN on Google Compute Engine
So my ultimate goal here is to try out VXLAN between some VMs on instances in Google compute engine, but today I’m just going to get VXLAN working because that took a fair bit longer than I expected. First off, boot your instances — because I will need nested virt later I chose two instances…
On syncing with Google Contacts
So, I started with a new company a few weeks ago, and one of the things I missed from my previous company was having the entire corporate directory synced onto my phone. Its really handy as an on caller to be able to give people a call when something goes wrong, without having to dig…
Getting Google Talk working with PyXMPP
Jacek Konieczny has written the wholly fantabulous PyXMPP, which implements Jabber clients and servers in Python. Now, Google Talk is a Jabber server, but it needs TLS support before it works. The code is all there, but the echobot example in the download (look in the examples directory) doesn’t show you how. It’s not that…
Looking for Women studying computing in Australia
I was in an unrelated meeting at work today, and it came up that the first annual Anti Borg scholarship is closing it’s application window in a few days. I thought it was worth mentioning here, in case there are people who are interested in applying. The basic deal is: Dr. Anita Borg (1949 –…
Mountain View WiFi
I’m sitting in a park in Mountain View at the moment, and the Mountain View Google WiFi works just fine. That’s totally cool. It makes me think about all those random crazy projects I can now implement where a computer in my car needs an internet connection to work right. Hmmmmmm… I guess that’s another…
Holy crap!
These guys really did deliver 1,000 pizzas to Google’s Mountain View campus. We even ate them. I guess that’s one way of getting publicity…
Kinderplex
The kids are the in the Kinderplex today (the Google-only child care center). It’s the first time I’ve dropped Matthew off for care and he hasn’t gone ape — I think it’s because he loved the center so much… There are computers in every room, and it’s probably the nicest laid out and supplied child…