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Ubiquiti USG DHCP static IP address

Looking to use static IP addresses with the DHCP provided by Ubiquiti USG? The Unifi controller web UI does have the very basic capability to add static DHCP entries but it's clunky and

  • Lucas Burson
    Lucas Burson
2 min read
programming

Create desktop images using Packer and Ansible

Looking for a way to automate the entire OS setup and install packages like Chrome, Dropbox, and Flatpak apps? Want an easy way to auto-configure vim, Kodi, firewall ports, sestatus, and $PATH for

  • Lucas Burson
    Lucas Burson
2 min read
programming

Spotify on Fedora 25 using Flatpak

Spotify is a great application where the web version just isn't as useful as the Desktop app. Spotify has a debian installer and no support for rpm distros, typically we'd be SOL on

  • Lucas Burson
    Lucas Burson
1 min read
Turning TP-LINK WR1043NDv2.1 router into OpenFlow-enabled switch
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Turning TP-LINK WR1043NDv2.1 router into OpenFlow-enabled switch

Software Defined Networking is extremely popular because it's one of the main enablers of cloud, simplifies network management with automation, increases security, and provides a huge ROI for its agility. SDN-enabled switches can

  • Lucas Burson
    Lucas Burson
5 min read
Compiling OpenWrt from source
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Compiling OpenWrt from source

Introduction OpenWrt is an open source firmware project targeting routers and systems of almost any architecture. Knowing how to build from source is important for developers and others that want to change the

  • Lucas Burson
    Lucas Burson
3 min read
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Initial thoughts on Amazon Alexa Skills Kit

I've been working with the Amazon Alexa Skill Kit (ASK) SDK the last few weeks and I wanted to write down some of the pros/cons that I saw in the developer preview.

  • Lucas Burson
    Lucas Burson
2 min read
programming

Solution to Windows ioctls are hard

I solved the ReadCapacity issues I was having in sgio.d on Windows! This is a major milestone for me because I've been stuck on this problem for over two months. My issue

  • Lucas Burson
    Lucas Burson
1 min read
programming

Windows ioctls are hard

I've been adding a few interesting SCSI calls to my sgio.d project, such as ReadCapacity (get the size of the volume) and Read16 (read some raw blocks), and it all works fine

  • Lucas Burson
    Lucas Burson
1 min read
programming

Another bug report

When I was switching my toy project sgio.d to dmd 2.067.1, I came across another compiler error. Cool! I submitted an issue on the bug tracker, and it looks like

  • Lucas Burson
    Lucas Burson
2 min read
programming

My First D Compiler Bug Report

I discovered a D compiler regression when I made the move to dmd 2.067.1! Finding a bug may not sound like much to most, but it's my first not-previously-discovered issue in

  • Lucas Burson
    Lucas Burson
1 min read
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