My name is Rich Jerrido and I am the person behind www.outsidaz.org I am a geek hailing from the city of brotherly love. I started this blog a couple of years back as a dumping place for a lot of working knowledge of mine that I could have available online regardless of where I was. Over time it has evolved into being a full-fledged blog, complete with RSS feeds, comments, and pictures.When I am not hacking on computers for profit, I hack on them for fun.Read more about me »
Sometimes I need a webserver while doing troubleshooting, such as testing firewalls or proxy servers, and installing Apache or Nginx is a bit heavyweight for my tastes (or time). Optimally, I would want something that I can invoke easily, keep in the foreground, and CTRL-C when complete. Luckily, Python includes a simple webserver which gives [...]
Travelling fairly frequently has caused me to re-evaluate the way that I travel and my workflow. In the process, I’ve learned some new tools, as well as learning new tricks for existing tools that I have. Most of my toolkit is designed around security and backups, since while I am away from 127.0.0.1 ::1, data [...]
They say that necessity is the mother of all invention. I would like to go on record as saying that if that is true, then laziness must be his father. Frequently, I have a requirement to spin up a machine or two (or a hundred) in “the cloud” to play around with, test something out, [...]
