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ExtreMon example
About a month ago, I blogged about extremon. As a reminder, ExtreMon is a monitoring tool that allows you to view things as they are happening, rather than with the ~5 minute delay that munin gives...
View ArticleDocker
... is the new hype these days. Everyone seems to want to be part of it; even Microsoft wants to allow Docker to run on its platform. How they visualise that is slightly beyond me, seen as how Docker...
View ArticleLOADays 2015
Looks like I'll be speaking at LOADays again. This time around, at the suggestion of one of the organisers, I'll be speaking about the Belgian electronic ID card, for which I'm currently employed as a...
View ArticleDear non-Belgian web developer,
Localization in the web context is hard, I know. To make things easier, it may seem like a good idea to use GeoIP to detect what country an IP is coming from and default your localization based on...
View ArticleNBD 3.9
I just released NBD 3.9When generating the changelog, I noticed that 3.8 happened two weeks shy of a year ago, which is far too long. As a result, the new release has many new features:AF_UNIX...
View ArticleNew toy: Fujitsu Lifebook e734
My Lenovo x220, which I've owned for almost four years now (I remember fetching it from the supplier shortly before driving off to Banja Luka), was getting somewhat worn out. The keyboard and the...
View ArticleC11 function overloading
About four years ago, the ISO 9899:2011 "C11" standard was announced. At the time, I had a short look at (a draft version of) the standards document, and found a few interesting bits in there. Of...
View ArticleLOADays 2015 talk done
I just uploaded my LOADays 2015 slides to slideshare. The talk seems to have been well received; I got a number of positive comments from some attendees, which is always nice.As an aside, during the...
View ArticleYoun Sun Nah 5tet: Light For The People
About a decade ago, I played in the (now defunct) "Jozef Pauly ensemble", a flute choir connected to the musical academy where I was taught to play the flute. At the time, this ensemble had the habit...
View ArticleFixing CVE-2015-0847 in Debian
Because of CVE-2015-0847 and CVE-2013-7441, two security issues in nbd-server, I've had to updates for nbd, for which there are various supported versions: upstream, unstable, stable, oldstable,...
View ArticleBacking up with tar
The tape archiver, better known as tar, is one of the older backup programs in existence.It's not very good at automated incremental backups (for which bacula is a good choice), but it can be useful...
View ArticleMulti-pass transcoding to WebM with normalisation
Transcoding video from one format to another seems to be a bit of a black art. There are many tools that allow doing this kind of stuff, but one issue that most seem to have is that they're not very...
View ArticleOn Planet Debian and the Code of Conduct
I am not going to talk about Norbert Preining's continuous ranting against Debian's Code of Conduct. Suffice to say that it annoys me, and that I think he is wrong.I am, however going to mention that...
View ArticleAdventures with modern electronics
I got me a new television last wednesday. The previous one was still functional, but with its 20 inch display it was (by today's standards) a very small one. In itself that wasn't an issue, but...
View ArticlePlanet Grep configuration now on github
For the longest time, the Planet Grep configuration was stored in a subversion repository on one of my servers. This worked, until the server was moved around once too often, and I apparently killed...
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Minidebconf Cambridge
My main reason for being here was to join the Debconf video team sprint. But hey, since I'm here anyway, why not join all of it, right?Right.Apart from the video team stuff that I've been involved in,...
View Articleterrorism
noun | ter·ror·ism | \ˈter-ər-ˌi-zəm\ | no pluralThe mistaken belief that it is possible to change the world through acts of cowardice.First use in English 1795 in reference to the Jacobin rule in...
View ArticlePlanet Grep now with much more hackergochis
I've been wanting for a very long time to have hackergochis on Planet Grep. The support is there, but if people don't submit them, that makes it so much harder to actually have hackergochis.Experience...
View ArticlePlaying with Letsencrypt
While I'm not convinced that encrypting everything by default is necessarily a good idea, it is certainly true that encryption has its uses. Unfortunately, for the longest time getting an SSL...
View ArticleOMFG, ls
alias ls='ls --color=auto -N'Unfortunately it doesn't actually revert to the previous behaviour, but it's close enough.
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