If you install all the packages required to run a KVM/QEMU host on CentOS, the qemu-system-x86_64 binary will not be installed. I don't know why this is true.

On Red Hat based distros you can run KVM/QEMU without ever knowing qemu-system-x86_64 exists. I've been using virt-install for years and thought it was the only way to build a VM.

I stumbled over this weirdness while learning Cumulus. The official doc is written for Debian based OSes, so when you try following these docs and try typing kvm you will see bash: kvm: command not found... nor can you install it from yum. It does not exist for CentOS.

So you must install qemu-system-x86_64 and s/kvm/qemu-system-x86_64 when you define (create) the Cumulus VMs per the Getting Started doc below.

https://docs.cumulusnetworks.com/cumulus-vx/Getting-Started/Libvirt-and-KVM-QEMU/

Icinga2 Jasper Project

Icinga2 Jasper Project

Icinga2 uses MySQL by default. You probably have MySQL running on your Icinga2 server. That's fine. Jasper is fine with that.

You can set up Jasper & Postgresql in one server and Icinga2  with MySQL on another.

Create a new directory and several directories inside it.

Create a new directory and several directories inside it.

mkdir -p /home/user/mysite/{public_html/{css,js,images},logs}

/home/user/mysite/public_html/css
/home/user/mysite/public_html/js
/home/user/mysite/public_html/images
/home/user/mysite/logs

mkdir -p /home/user/mysite/{public_html/{css,js,images,logs}}

/home/user/mysite/public_html/css
/home/user/mysite/public_html/js
/home/user/mysite/public_html/images
/home/user/mysite/public_html/logs

Start activemq using systemd on Red Hat 7.x

[Unit]
Description=ActiveMQ async message broker
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
PrivateTmp=true
Type=forking
Environment=JAVA_HOME=/opt/java/jdk1.7.0_45
Environment=ACTIVEMQ_HOME=/opt/amq
ExecStart=/opt/amq/bin/activemq start
User=activemq
Group=activemq

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I was fishing yesterday afternoon and evening on a local reservoir when a thunder storm blew in. It rained hard for about five minutes but I didn't get soaked because there were enough trees between me and the storm to absorb the rain. The cell passed to the southeast and I got to see a small, complete rainbow in it's wake. Both ends of the rainbow appeared to be in the lake. There was no thunder or lightning near me, so I stayed put and enjoyed the show.

Carp fishing frustrations

There are some massive carp in a pond near me and least one of them likes to jump. I got a good look at her when she leapt tonight and I'd guess she's at least 20 lbs. and about a yard long. She jumped in the same spot several times over the course of three hours. Sometimes it seemed as if the jumps coinsided with me casting my bass lure, as if in response to the splash of my lure hitting the water. (I'm just guessing about the fish's gender. Female fish are usually much bigger than males. This is true of most fish species.)

I bought some carp bait a few months ago and hadn't tried using it until this week. Carp don't hunt live fish, therefore carp do not chase lures. (Well, except insect representations, i.e. flies.) They aren't equipped to chase down finny prey, but they probably eat dead fish and crawdads as long as they're small enough to fit in that vacuum cleaner nozzle mouth that most carp possess.

Today I used a carp tactic I saw a Brit using on youtube. He used dog food kibble as chum, so I thought I'd try it. I scattered the kibble in the water along the shore, hoping to attract carp to the area where my baited hook was positioned. I did this in a cove where the wind had been funneling flotsam. There was a slick of foam building up in this cul-de-sac cove apparently containing dead bugs, etc. In the shallowest part of this cove I had seen carp browsing, their dorsal fins waving in air.

It was a cool, drizzly evening but I did see a couple of carp where I had seen them the day before; in a cove where the wind had been funneling all sorts of foamy flotsam. "Sight fishing," i.e. stalking fish you can see in the water, is great fun but tricky because it's easy to spook a carp or trout. All it takes is one heavy footstep and your quarry flees. This water in this pond is the color of coffee, stained dark with tannic acid from rotting vegetation, so spotting fish here is not easy.

Just as I had my chum line set up a flock of Canada geese paddled over, assuming the kibble was for them. They snapped up whatever kibble they could find. When they were done eating my chum, they stared at me hoping I would deliver more. So help me, I threw rocks at them which probably scared the carp away too.

Oh well. I should probably bring my fly rod next time because sitting on the bank staring at the water and waiting for "the take" is too boring, far too passive. Hell, I don't even own a lawn chair.

a couple of firsts

Last night I landed a 5 pounder-ish LMB at the reservoir closest to where I live. I'm getting used to landing bass in this weight range but this time I caught one on a Koppers Live Target rubber frog. This bait doesn't have any action whatsoever. You just drag it through the grass in 2 - 3 foot bursts. I worked this bait in a cove where the frogs were singing and wham, fish on. The water must have been 6" deep where the fish struck.

The other first was, first fish caught on a Slug-Go. I had a white, 7" Slug-Go rigged on an EWG worm hook. Smallish pickerel took it. 

Elusive giant at the landing by the power lines.

It's evening on the reservoir.

I cast as far as I dare push my rod, and the instant the plug lands ten yards from the opposite shore the water erupts with a thrashing fish. Something big was right under the plug when it landed, but it missed my plug. I reel the lure in quickly to see if she'll strike again, but she's not interested.

By the time I have my plug back and cast again, there's another explosion 15 yards left of the first and ten yards left of my latest presentation. This time the fish leaps clear of the water, and I'm able to see it's pale belly. A few seconds later there's another rise, but it's not quite an explosion. Now all is quiet again, and the fish has moved on.

Bassin' for Christ 20120317

First bass of the day.

Third bass of the day.

Taken sucks

He forgot to mention the main theme, xenophobia. Horrible movie!

Martin L. King

http://pichars.org/FMzxc

The End Is Nigh!

Folks can't be blamed for thinking we are living in the "end times," what with the nuclear catastrophe in Japan and all the wars and upheavals happening in the oil-rich part of the world. I found an unambiguous sign of the apocalypse in Burlington, MA.

Healthnet of California WIN

http://www.darkreading.com/database-security/167901020/security/attacks-breaches/229301155/health-net-breach-exposes-1-9-million-records.html

In 1999 I worked for a tiny, non-profit entity in Watertown, MA called healthnet.org. They had a time share on a low-earth-orbit, commercial satellite and used it to relay email via "packet radio" to ground stations in Africa. It was the most effective way to provide email service to places Africa where there was no dial-up Internet service.

Healthnet of Watertown had registered healthnet.org in 1995 iirc and were minding their own business when they were sued by HealthNet of California, which is a health insurance company. Healthnet of CA claimed that we were "diluting their brand," and wanted to take the healthnet.org domain away from us. They failed. The Californian bullies lost their case in part because Healthnet of Watertown had a connection to a Harvard Law School prof. Anyway, Healthnet of CA is reaping the wages of sin now. What dirtbags.

Fresh tats, old bullet wounds

Representitives of Gucci, Inc. could not be reached for comment.

Jo Jo Taipei Boston

Need to visit http://www.jojotaipeiboston.com

Hunting with Frisbees

What a concept. I can throw a frisbee pretty far and with great accuracy so the next logical step is to use it as a weapon against defenseless animals. I'm thinking ducks and geese would be the easiest targets. Hitting them on the wing would earn you extra points. Squirrels might also be a possibility. Throwing into a large flock of starlings might be a good way to persuade them to leave.

Weaponized frisbees would be made of aluminum or titanium, or at least be reinforced with such metals. Is there a DARPA program for these?

This idea really captures my contradictory nature. 

Fresh Pond parking lot

I paid a visit to the Whore Foods at Fresh Pond to get some $5 lb. hake and as I return to my car I see a middle-aged black man immaculately dressed in a suit with thick-rimmed glasses but wearing a huge Marge Simpson hairdo under some sort of rasta-inspired head covering. A giant sock on his head, basically.

Then I notice he's hanging around a Mercedes Komprressor SLK, which might actually be his car. I wonder how he can sit down in the car without mashing his giant hairdo. He asks me if I know what "those things in the sky" are. He points at the sky. I look up.
"Uh, contrails left by airplanes would be my guess. Condensation."
He replies, "military or civilian?"
"Civilian, mostly."

I get in my car and out of the corner of my eye I see he's pointing a small digital camera at the sky.

He had no discernible accent. Could have passed for a college prof but I can easily imagine him as a conman bilking hundreds of his "brothers" out of their savings with promises of bestowing upon them Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Powers, or some such codswallop.

Just a typical day in the People's Republic of Cambridge.

Officialy Obese

My BMI puts me in the obese range. Go me.

The hazzards of gyms

I guess I need to buy an iPod or the like because last Sunday I spent about 45 minutes in the gym and was forced to listen to pop rock classics including REO Speedwagon's Take It On The Run.

"It's in my brain now." -- Meat Beat Manifesto

Veronica Lake!

Wow. She was a goddess and had such a sweet voice. I'm watching Sullivan's Travels.