For years I have been using VNC for my remote desktop needs. This works usually well enough. The features that I like are:
On the …
I am busy moving away from my VeraEdge installation to a Home Assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 4. This is because it looks like the maker of the VeraEdge was bought and it is slowly being phased out.
For this I am using the following parts:
Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It is advertised as offering a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in isolation from the rest of the system. Flatpak was developed as part of the freedesktop.org project and was originally called xdg-app …
I always had issues remembering how to create releases. So in order to standardise things, I wrote this script:
So whenever I am ready to release I would then just issue the command:
./ghrelease vX.Y.Z
You obviously need git. But also you would need
github-cli.
Your …
Some hints and tips foor doing SSL related things:
This command lets you connect to a SSL server (a-la netcat):
cat request.txt | openssl s_client -connect server:443
This is a single command to generate a self-signed certificate:
openssl req -new \
-newkey rsa:4096 …The other day I needed to copy a bunch of files between to servers
in my home network. Because of the volume I wanted to copy the files
without having to go through ssh's encryption overhead. So I
figured I could use netcat for the data transport.
To do …
If you often mount and access a remote NFS share on your system, you will probably want to know how to improve NFS file access performance. One possibility is using file caching. In Linux, there is a caching filesystem called FS-Cache which enables file caching for network file systems such …
Reference: positon.org
You have 2 systems and you want to set up a secure backup with rsync + SSH of one system to the other.
Very simply, you can use:
backup.example.com# rsync -avz --numeric-ids --delete [email protected]:/path/ /backup/myserver/
To do the backup, you have …
Work improvements
THIS IS FOR ARCHIVAL PURPOSES. THIS IS OUT-OF-DATE
openshift getenv(USER) from OpenShift php
ssh to {user}@{app-domain} gear snapshot > file
Run gear app
OpenShift migration further notes
Encrypt a file using a supplied password :
$ openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in file.txt -out file.txt.enc -k …Windows system administration is very mouse driven and to reach all tools you need to browse through Windows explorer.
If you are like me and prefer to log on a limited privilege account and use Runas to perform admin tasks, you can open these consoles with the .msc file names …
This is a list of my favorite Android Apps:
In Linux, there is a caching filesystem called FS-Cache which enables
file caching for network file systems such as NFS. FS-Cache is built
into the Linux kernel 2.6.30 and higher. In order for FS-Cache to
operate, it needs cache back-end which provides actual storage for
caching. One such …
Testing, code coverage, style enforcement are all check-in and merge requirements that can be automated and driven from Git.
If you're among the rising number of Git users out there, you're in luck: You can automate pieces of your development workflow with Git hooks. Hooks are a native Git mechanism …
The other day I replaced an analog phone with a Grandstream GXP1400 IP phone. I think it is a great value phone. It is one of the cheapest I could find yet supports all the features I was looking.
Specifically I wanted a IP phone that could:
So I was looking to replace my analog cordless phones mainly because I wanted to have a centralized way to maintain phonebooks. Right now I have two cordless phone that I have to manually enter phonebook entries on the two handsets independently.
Initially I was thinking of getting …
RemoteBox is a Remote VirtualBox UI. It is similar phpVirtualBox in that allows to manage VirtualBox remotely (on a potentially headless server). They differ in their requirements:
A bunch of stupid SSH tricks that can be useful somehow, somewhere...
This is for the scenario that you know which specific protocol works
to reach a particular host. Usually good to eliminate the delay
for SSH to figure out to switch IP protocols. For …
There is nothing special with GitHub and Gitorious here. This technique would work exactly the same the other way around or with other servers.
# Inital setup
git clone --mirror git://gitorious.org/weasyprint/weasyprint.git weasyprint
GIT_DIR=weasyprint git remote add github git@github.com:SimonSapin/WeasyPrint …Sometimes we need to connect two or more geographically distrubuted ethernet networks to one broadcast domain. There can be two different office networks of some company which uses smb protocol partially based on broadcast network messages. Another example of such situation is computer cafes: a couple of computer cafes can …