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Part 3: Building the Keystone – Dataproc Custom Images for Secure Boot & GPUs
Part 3: Building the Keystone – Dataproc Custom Images for Secure Boot & GPUs In Part 1, we established a secure, proxy-only network. In Part 2, we explored the enhanced install_gpu_driver.sh initialization action. Now, in Part 3, we’ll focus on using the LLC-Technologies-Collier/custom-images repository (branch proxy-exercise-2025-11) to build the actual custom Dataproc images embedded with…
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Part 2: Taming the Beast – Deep Dive into the Proxy-Aware GPU Initialization Action
Part 2: Taming the Beast – Deep Dive into the Proxy-Aware GPU Initialization Action In Part 1 of this series, we laid the network foundation for running secure Dataproc clusters. Now, let’s zoom in on the core component responsible for installing and configuring NVIDIA GPU drivers and the associated ML stack in this restricted environment:…
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Navigating the Perils of Perl Mocking: A Debugging Journey
As a software engineer, I often find myself deep in the trenches of testing, ensuring the code I write is not just functional but also resilient. Recently, I embarked on a refactoring project that involved moving a script’s functionality into a new Perl module, App::Workflow::Controller. This module’s job was to orchestrate a few tasks: query…
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Upgrading Proxmox 7 to 8
Some variant of the following[1] worked for me. The first line is the start of a for loop that runs on each node in my cluster a command using ssh. The argument -t is passed to attach a controlling terminal to STDIN, STDERR and STDOUT of this session, since there will not be an intervening…
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First taste of Debian 12
As some of you may know, the Debian project released v12, bookworm to stable on the 10th of this month. I haven’t had a reason to try it yet, but I’m downloading it now. My first thought is that it’s much larger than I expected. The normal sized version used to fit on a CD-ROM…
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Recovering videos from DV tapes with Canon ZR80
I am recovering some tapes from back in the day that some of you may enjoy. Here is a log of the process so that maybe you can recover some of your own DV tapes. Seems to work well in modern Debian. To attach to the camcorder, I used a PCI-e card that has an…
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Some work on a VyOS image with Let’s Encrypt certs
I put some packages together this weekend. It’s been a while since I’ve debuilt anything officially. libffi-platypus-perl libalien-base-perl libalien-ffi-perl libffi-checklib-perl libshell-config-generate-perl libshell-guess-perl The plan is to build a binding to the libgnutls.so.30 API. The certtool CSR (REQ) generation interface does not allow me to create a CRL with “not critical” attributes set on purposes. Maybe…
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LLC-Technologies-Collier/Demo-SCCC-Byte-AngularJS
Hello dear readers and attendees, This is the post that I will be/ will have been referencing during my presentation to the Seattle Central Community College’s Byte club on Thursday, December 10th at 1500-1630. I will begin with a bit of an autobio and find out what kind of students we have in attendance. Please…
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Really large NLP corpora
Jeeze people. You’re all noisy. I’m sure it was all done for posterity’s sake. 23M irclogs/MagNET/#perl.log 29M irclogs/freenode/#mysql.log 36M irclogs/freenode/#debian.log 37M irclogs/foonetic/#xkcd.log 39M irclogs/OFTC/#debian.log 43M irclogs/freenode/#jquery.log 44M irclogs/freenode/#perl.log $ for file in irclogs/MagNET/#perl.log irclogs/freenode/#mysql.log irclogs/freenode/#debian.log irclogs/foonetic/#xkcd.log irclogs/OFTC/#debian.log irclogs/freenode/#jquery.log irclogs/freenode/#perl.log; do echo -n “$file: ” ; head -1 $file ; done irclogs/MagNET/#perl.log: — Log opened Thu…