I tried to pay some bills at my bank ATM and this was the message that was displayed on the ATM: Hard to pay the bills when the ATM is shutting down 🙂 And yes is a Windows XP, the best Windows up to date 🙂 Banks know their safe technology. [paypal_donation_button]
Google puts another nail in the coffin for SHA-1. They already moved from using SHA-1 on their products but there are still a lot of places where is used by default. In a post on the Google Online Security Blog Announcing the first SHA1 collision Google researchers claim that they have a good way of… Read More: Blog Links: SHA-1 cryptographic hash collision detection by Google »
There is an interesting case of failing technology due to an unimplemented feature. See the following mail list thread for the original post. Basically if you deploy DRBD and one of the endpoints is a vmware virtual machine: – when trying to mount a newly created etx4 file-system over the LVM from the drbd device… Read More: #DRBD: Creating an ext4 over LVM then mount results in… »
This is the kind of tutorials I like to distribute. Building a vSphere 6.5 Home Lab The above is a very well written tutorial on how to deploy VSphere on a home lab system. In the tutorial they use an Intel NUC but a HP Microserver GEN8 is even better. Take a look and have… Read More: Blog Links: Building a vSphere 6.5 Home Lab »
Docker starts to look like a competitor to virtualization environments like VMWare VSphere deplyments. In the following knowledge base article Docker Reference Architecture: Docker Datacenter Best Practices and Design Considerations there is a very interesting presentation on how to migrate a datacenter to docker. Docker Datacenter (DDC) is the enterprise container platform from Docker to… Read More: Docker in the datacenter with DDC »
The best way to do simple video in Linux is using the command line. This way you can do quick one liner commands that do the job fast and clean. My favourite tool is ffmpeg. Install ffmpeg: If you do not have it already installed to install ffmpeg simply do (in Fedora): Install the rpmfusion… Read More: Linux: Command line video editing »
This is post in continuation of Docker: Orchestrate multiple containers with docker-compose The same application environment is specified using the docker-compose V2 specification. This looks very similar but with a simplified syntax and some extra features. STEP 1: List the existing images # docker images REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE 10.0.0.245:5000/test_app.v7 flat 53ac9d27fbb3 5… Read More: Docker: Orchestrate multiple containers with docker-compose V2 »
Everybody knows that backup is important and having a backup setup on an external resource as remote server or tape drive is even better. I wanted to set up an automatic backup that does not require a lot of intervention, to safeguard the most important data hosted on my servers: the owncloud storage space and… Read More: Backup: Scheduled backup with #Yosemite Server Backup »
I always missed some nice Linux tools when I work on Windows. I know that is nice to have a fancy GUI but sometimes you cannot do even simple things without paying a lot for some bloated application. There is the simple problem of optimizing pdf files, especially big manuals, pdf files containing images or… Read More: A free and new way to shrink pdf files in… »
There is a new tool from Google available to all that want to keep a backup of their Google data. I know that Google means “free” mail and “free” cloud space for lots of you but for the faint hearted a backup is always welcome. If we look at the Yahoo issue (due to bad… Read More: Back-up your Google data »