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My take on CentOS8
CentOS8 was released not too long ago by the RedHat ppl and after giving it some time to mature a bit I decided to take a closer look at it. Reading online about it I noticed they changed some stuff and improved other stuff but overall there’s not much I can call “special” about it…
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ReactOS
In my quest for emulating various MS Windows apps on Linux I came across ReactOS -> https://reactos.org After reading the about section and looking at the “why?” behind this initiative I felt that this project is something amazing and worth keeping an eye on. Everyone knows it’s really hard to run a piece of software…
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CentOS7 build environment (src.rpm -> rpm)
One of the things I hate the most about CentOS is the fact that once they release a new version they seem to also lock major versions of various packages with it like for example php or mysql which seem frozen in time, not to mention the kernel. My solution usually is to simply use…
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Openfire – personal chat server
I remember many years ago (when I discovered dial-up Internet) me and my mates used to chat via IRC, after that we had yahoo messenger and google talk and all sorts of other chat tools like them. After that, while running my own business, me and my team wanted to have a way to chat…
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Linux security – Cristian style
This time we’re going to talk about security in context of Linux … that pesky topic everyone seems to be good at but then not quite good enough. Problem with security is that you can never have enough of it but at the same time you need to NOT get it in your way. Also…
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Solar powered – ver 0.2 alpha
It’s been a few months since I deployed the solar system (aka the power plant as we call it) and it worked ok considering weather in the UK and the fact that it is a really small rig. Now I had another crazy idea (prepper style) and that is: why not try to mix it…
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Home lab – Spacewalk – Systems Management and Provisioning
For who is not yet familiar with this project go to this url: https://spacewalkproject.github.io/ This project advertises the fact that it manages software on your systems and provisions on bare metal and virtual so it’s like a fancier Cobbler (it actually uses Cobbler in the backend) with some “push” functions. The only reason this project…
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Coronavirus update
Unfortunately the Coronavirus situation seems to be ongoingLooking at this site: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ you can get the current status around the world and today (April 12, 2020) we have about 1.8 mil people confirmed to have been infected, 113k deaths caused by this virus and about 400k cases of people recovering from COVID19. At the Government’s…
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Project grow your own veg ver. 2020
Last year we decided to grow some veg in the garden and chose to focus on tomatoes, onions and various herbs which for us turned out to be a massive success with respect to the taste of the veg not the quantity of veg we harvested. This year focus was on being smarter, starting earlier…
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Redis cluster – Cristian style
I’ve been looking into getting some form of in memory caching for my sites BUT at same time do it in a way in which data would still be there in case of a crash and also do it HA style to be able to do maintenance on it without having some form of service…