Items in category technical

• Mgmt Configuration Language: Functions
  posted on November 22, 2024

• Better dmesg in five minutes
  posted on November 17, 2024

• A new provisioning tool built with mgmt
  posted on March 27, 2024

• Bash $PATH filtering
  posted on March 2, 2024

• Upcoming Speaking and Events
  posted on January 31, 2024

• Git branch filtering
  posted on January 28, 2024

• Five minute hacks: Swapping left and right headphone audio in wireplumber
  posted on November 22, 2023

• One minute hacks: Saving time inserting images in Libreoffice
  posted on August 2, 2023

• UEFI booting, and with a new kernel module
  posted on July 24, 2023

• Improving git diff output in 5 min
  posted on June 1, 2023

• Blocked select logging (deadlock finding) in golang
  posted on May 26, 2023

• Deadline context test cancellation in golang
  posted on February 24, 2023

• Magic typing with shortcuts on Linux
  posted on June 16, 2021

• USB Audio on a Boombox
  posted on January 11, 2021

• Inexpensive Dynamic DNS over IRC
  posted on September 1, 2020

• USB Car Audio in a Civic
  posted on August 24, 2020

• Mgmt Configuration Language: Class and Include
  posted on July 26, 2019

• Upcoming Speaking and Events
  posted on February 2, 2019

• A guide to fighting with a Cisco access point
  posted on December 21, 2018

• Hyperlinks in GNOME terminal
  posted on June 29, 2018

• Breaking out of the Slack walled garden
  posted on June 22, 2018

• A new sync primitive in golang
  posted on May 20, 2018

• Running `make` from anywhere
  posted on March 10, 2018

• Mgmt Configuration Language
  posted on February 5, 2018

• Extracting movies from libreoffice
  posted on July 12, 2017

• Declarative vs. Imperative paradigms
  posted on May 5, 2017

• Osmocom femtocell un-boxing
  posted on April 30, 2017

• Metaparameters in mgmt
  posted on March 1, 2017

• Faster golang builds
  posted on February 26, 2017

• Ten minute hacks: Process pause & resume
  posted on January 6, 2017

• Send/Recv in mgmt
  posted on December 7, 2016

• A revisionist history of configuration management
  posted on November 30, 2016

• Remote execution in mgmt
  posted on October 7, 2016

• mgmt has a logo
  posted on September 30, 2016

• Live dmesg following
  posted on August 29, 2016

• Seen in downtown Montreal...
  posted on August 3, 2016

• Ten minute hacks: Hacking airplane headphones
  posted on July 18, 2016

• Automatic clustering in mgmt
  posted on June 20, 2016

• Upcoming speaking In Hong Kong and South Africa
  posted on June 20, 2016

• One hour hacks: Remote LUKS over SSH
  posted on April 25, 2016

• Automatic grouping in mgmt
  posted on March 30, 2016

• Automatic edges in mgmt
  posted on March 14, 2016

• Introducing: git tpush
  posted on February 16, 2016

• Debugging golang programs
  posted on February 15, 2016

• Next generation configuration mgmt
  posted on January 18, 2016

• Upcoming speaking
  posted on January 18, 2016

• Trying out Ceph with Oh-My-Vagrant
  posted on December 28, 2015

• Matching arbitrary URL's to custom Firefox profiles
  posted on November 14, 2015

• Thanking Oh-My-Vagrant contributors for version 1.0.0
  posted on August 18, 2015

• Vagrant and Oh-My-Vagrant on RHEL7
  posted on August 11, 2015

• Making an empty RPM
  posted on August 11, 2015

• Golang parallelism issues causing “too many open files” error
  posted on July 27, 2015

• Git archive with submodules and tar magic
  posted on July 23, 2015

• Oh-My-Vagrant “Mainstream” mode and COPR RPM's
  posted on July 8, 2015

• A super privileged Puppet container
  posted on June 12, 2015

• Kubernetes clusters with Oh-My-Vagrant
  posted on May 2, 2015

• Docker containers in Oh-My-Vagrant
  posted on April 20, 2015

• Sharing dev environments with Oh-My-Vagrant
  posted on April 8, 2015

• Fancy git aliases and git cherryfetch
  posted on March 16, 2015

• Building RHEL Vagrant Boxes with Vagrant-Builder
  posted on February 23, 2015

• Introducing: Silent counter
  posted on February 9, 2015

• Replying to mailing lists with Evolution
  posted on November 27, 2014

• Captive web portals are considered harmful
  posted on November 27, 2014

• The switch as an ordinary GNU/Linux server
  posted on November 4, 2014

• Testing Evolution's git master and GNOME continuous
  posted on October 22, 2014

• Hacking out an Openshift app
  posted on October 18, 2014

• Continuous integration for Puppet modules
  posted on October 10, 2014

• Fixing dropbox “conflicted copy” problems
  posted on September 30, 2014

• Introducing: Oh My Vagrant!
  posted on September 3, 2014

• Rough data density calculations
  posted on August 27, 2014

• Hybrid management of FreeIPA types with Puppet
  posted on July 24, 2014

• One minute hacks: the nautilus scripts folder
  posted on June 26, 2014

• Securely managing secrets for FreeIPA with Puppet
  posted on June 6, 2014

• Hiera data in modules and OS independent puppet
  posted on June 4, 2014

• Restarting GNOME shell via SSH
  posted on May 29, 2014

• Vagrant on Fedora with libvirt (reprise)
  posted on May 13, 2014

• Keeping git submodules in sync with your branches
  posted on May 6, 2014

• Puppet-Gluster now available as RPM
  posted on March 27, 2014

• Introducing Puppet Exec['again']
  posted on March 24, 2014

• Preserving your working directory in gnome-terminal
  posted on March 20, 2014

• Speaking at SCALE today!
  posted on February 21, 2014

• Building a snow shelter
  posted on February 17, 2014

• Scathing review of the Lenovo X240
  posted on February 2, 2014

• Show the exit status in your $PS1
  posted on January 29, 2014

• Screencasts of Puppet-Gluster + Vagrant
  posted on January 27, 2014

• Building base images for Vagrant with a Makefile
  posted on January 20, 2014

• Testing GlusterFS during “Glusterfest”
  posted on January 16, 2014

• Automatically deploying GlusterFS with Puppet-Gluster + Vagrant!
  posted on January 8, 2014

• Vagrant clustered SSH and ‘screen’
  posted on January 2, 2014

• Vagrant vsftp and other tricks
  posted on December 21, 2013

• Vagrant on Fedora with libvirt
  posted on December 9, 2013

• Now syndicated on “Planet Fedora”
  posted on December 9, 2013

• Advanced recursion and memoization in Puppet
  posted on November 27, 2013

• Documentation for Puppet-Gluster
  posted on November 20, 2013

• Iteration in Puppet
  posted on November 17, 2013

• Pushing Puppet at Puppet Camp DC, LISA 2013
  posted on November 5, 2013

• Gluster Community Day, LISA 2013, Monday
  posted on November 5, 2013

• Speaking at LISA 2013 about Puppet and GlusterFS
  posted on November 3, 2013

• Easier strace of scripts with pidof -x
  posted on October 26, 2013

• first release of puppet-shorewall
  posted on October 21, 2013

• Desktop Notifications for Irssi in Screen through SSH in Gnome Terminal
  posted on October 18, 2013

• GNOME Montreal Summit
  posted on October 15, 2013

• Show current git branch in PS1 when branch is not master
  posted on October 10, 2013

• Finite state machines in puppet
  posted on September 28, 2013

• No Ads!
  posted on September 26, 2013

• Installing missing GNOME games
  posted on September 26, 2013

• Bittorent sync for repository mirroring
  posted on September 23, 2013

• Gluster Community Day, Thursday
  posted on September 20, 2013

• Linuxcon day three, Wednesday
  posted on September 18, 2013

• Linuxcon day two, Tuesday
  posted on September 18, 2013

• Linuxcon day one, Monday
  posted on September 18, 2013

• New puppet-gluster features before Linuxcon
  posted on September 8, 2013

• Puppet-Gluster and me at Linuxcon
  posted on September 2, 2013

• Finding YAML errors in puppet
  posted on August 25, 2013

• Upgrading from Fedora 18 to Fedora 19
  posted on August 4, 2013

• a puppet-ipa user type and a new difference engine
  posted on July 9, 2013

• Fresh releases! puppet-ipa, puppet-nfs, puppet-gluster
  posted on June 23, 2013

• Playing with FreeIPA and puppet
  posted on June 18, 2013

• puppet lsi hardware raid module
  posted on June 17, 2013

• Collecting duplicate resources in puppet
  posted on June 4, 2013

• puppet matlab module
  posted on June 4, 2013

• puppet rsnapshot module
  posted on June 4, 2013

• Forcing firefox to remember passwords
  posted on May 17, 2013

• Overriding attributes of collected exported resources
  posted on May 14, 2013

• Mothers day hacks
  posted on May 12, 2013

• Upgrading to centos 6.4 with shorewall onboard
  posted on April 25, 2013

• Fixing jerky scrolling in Firefox
  posted on April 11, 2013

• Knowing when to release and deploy your code (...and a mini script)
  posted on April 8, 2013

• running your file manager from a terminal
  posted on March 22, 2013

• adding range support to python's http server to kickstart with anaconda
  posted on March 14, 2013

• learn how to do one minute hacks, in three minutes
  posted on March 7, 2013

• A quick anaconda trick
  posted on March 4, 2013

• Automatic hiera lookups in puppet 3.x
  posted on February 20, 2013

• Picking up the pieces after a Fedora 18 install
  posted on February 12, 2013

• How to send and receive files like a professional
  posted on February 4, 2013

• Renaming a GNOME keyring (for seahorse, the passwords and keyrings application)
  posted on January 27, 2013

• SElinux causes pain when using puppet 2.x with hiera
  posted on January 17, 2013

• Dynamically including classes in puppet
  posted on January 16, 2013

• Clustering virtual machines with rgmanager and clusvcadm
  posted on January 3, 2013

• How I broke (and fixed) my rgmanager service
  posted on December 31, 2012

• visible close buttons on every firefox tab (including the last one)
  posted on November 26, 2012

• more rows and columns on firefox new tab page
  posted on November 24, 2012

• hello planet puppet
  posted on November 23, 2012

• recursion in puppet (for no particular reason)
  posted on November 20, 2012

• continuous display of log files (better tail -f)
  posted on November 18, 2012

• setting timed events in puppet
  posted on November 14, 2012

• preventing duplicate parameter values in puppet types
  posted on November 7, 2012

• changing *that* keyboard shortcut right there (in gnome)
  posted on November 3, 2012

• Multifile mode for text editors
  posted on October 24, 2012

• Our fusion future
  posted on October 20, 2012

• including a recursive tree of files with distutils
  posted on October 1, 2012

• finding your software install $prefix from inside python
  posted on September 20, 2012

• How to avoid cluster race conditions or: How to implement a distributed lock manager in puppet
  posted on August 23, 2012

• puppet gluster module now in git
  posted on July 27, 2012

• a puppet module for gluster
  posted on July 24, 2012

• now syndicated on “planet gluster”
  posted on July 24, 2012

• building intel nic driver (igb) for gluster on centos
  posted on July 20, 2012

• my gluster setup, described
  posted on July 19, 2012

• gnome3+others glipper/klipper replacement
  posted on July 5, 2012

• fedora 14 to 17 upgrade
  posted on June 4, 2012

• IPMI for linux professionals
  posted on April 25, 2012

• how to use ssh escape characters
  posted on April 25, 2012

• Dear internets
  posted on February 22, 2012

• sparse rsync magic
  posted on February 22, 2012

• git, gitosis, gitweb and friends...
  posted on August 19, 2010

• gnome-do trick
  posted on March 31, 2010

• lecturing and git-bisect
  posted on March 31, 2010

• scary cool bash scripting inside a Makefile
  posted on March 31, 2010

• getting gedit to work like magic
  posted on March 9, 2010

• n900 features that should be added
  posted on March 2, 2010

• a custom epiphany location bar
  posted on February 22, 2010

• reading obscure documentation
  posted on February 8, 2010

• getopt vs. optparse vs. argparse
  posted on February 3, 2010

• sorting out the confusion
  posted on January 27, 2010

• piping data through ssh
  posted on December 9, 2009

• really well written article
  posted on November 16, 2009

• IPVS + shorewall
  posted on November 5, 2009

• scary man pages
  posted on November 2, 2009

• multi monitors and how it should all work (long babble)
  posted on October 23, 2009

• tech support for a keyboard
  posted on October 23, 2009

• vanilla: my favourite flavour of gnome
  posted on October 22, 2009

• why linux is powerful or: how to erase half your system and then fix it
  posted on October 14, 2009

• the python subprocess module
  posted on October 7, 2009

• the power to yield a better console interface
  posted on August 20, 2009

• ssh hanging
  posted on July 29, 2009

• cheetah == fortran
  posted on July 21, 2009

• [py]inotify, polling, gtk and gio
  posted on July 21, 2009

• evanescent 0.3
  posted on July 14, 2009

• logging out of $SESSION
  posted on July 13, 2009

• convert .ai to .svg using uniconverter
  posted on June 16, 2009

• brilliant: get rid of mono
  posted on June 8, 2009

• coloured tab completion
  posted on June 2, 2009

• grep, shopt:dotglob and (hidden) dot files
  posted on June 2, 2009

• Server Fault
  posted on May 27, 2009

• community
  posted on May 27, 2009

• first babble
  posted on May 22, 2009