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Dries Buytaert: The privilege of free time in Open Source
In Open Source, there is a long-held belief in meritocracy, or the idea that the best work rises to the top, regardless of who contributes it. The problem is that a meritocracy assumes an equal...
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Dries Buytaert: How to prepare for Drupal 9
With Drupal 9 targeted to be released in June of 2020, many people are wondering what they need to do to prepare.The good and important news is that upgrading from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9 should be really...
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Frank Goossens: Music from Our Tube; Coming Home with Swindle & Kojey Radical
This old fart is happy to keep on bopping to new music such as the Brownswood (Merci Gilles) backed Swindle, here with Kojey Radical;Watch this video on YouTube.Possibly related twitterless twaddle:As...
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Bert de Bruijn: Reset lost root password on vSphere ESXi 6.7
VMware's solution to a lost or forgotten root password for ESXi is simple: go to https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1317898?lang=en_US and you'll find that "Reinstalling the ESXi host is the only...
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Dries Buytaert: Seattle by night
It has been a while since I added to my "Cities by night" photography series. Below are some photos from Pike Place Market, Seattle's epicenter of fresh produce, flowers and independent businesses.
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Dries Buytaert: State of Drupal presentation (April 2019)
Last week, many Drupalists gathered in Seattle for DrupalCon North America, for what was the largest DrupalCon in history.As a matter of tradition, I presented my State of Drupal keynote. You can watch...
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Wim Leers: Backwards Compatibility vs Evolvability vs Maintainability
The benefits of backwards compatibility (BC) are clear: no users are left behind. Which leads to higher adoption rates because you’re often getting new features and you always have the latest security...
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Bert de Bruijn: Updating VCSA on a private network
Updating the VCSA is easy when it has internet access or if you can mount the update iso. On a private network, VMware assumes you have a webserver that can serve up the updaterepo files. In this...
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Bert de Bruijn: which vSphere version is my VM running on?
I did not yet update my older post when vSphere 6.7 was released. The list now complete up to vSphere 6.7. Your Linux runs on a VMware VM, but which on which ESXi version? You can see for yourself: run...
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Bert de Bruijn: How VMware appliances update themselves
Most VMware appliances (vCenter Appliance, VMware Support Appliance, vRealize Orchestrator) have the so called VAMI: the VMware Appliance Management Interface, generally served via https on port 5480....
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Bert de Bruijn: How to solve "user locked out due to failed logins" in...
In vSphere 6, if the vi-admin account get locked because of too many failed logins, and you don't have the root password of the appliance, you can reset the account(s) using these steps:reboot the...
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Bert de Bruijn: A use case for exporting and importing distributed vswitches
In a recent VMware project, an existing environment of vSphere ESXi hosts had to be split off to a new instance of vCenter. These hosts were member of a distributed virtual switch, an object that saves...
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Bert de Bruijn: Lego Boost candy sorter
Our project for the 2018 Coderdojo Belgium Coolest Projects exhibition was a candy sorter, built in Lego and driven by Lego Boost. I took pictures and wrote building instructions while disassembling...
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Jeroen De Dauw: Applications as Frameworks
What are the differences between building on top of a framework and building on top of an application? How does using an application as a framework cause problems, and how can these problems be...
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Xavier Mertens: [SANS ISC] Malware Sample Delivered Through UDF Image
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Malware Sample Delivered Through UDF Image“:I found an interesting phishing email which was delivered with a malicious attachment: an UDF image (.img)....
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Dries Buytaert: Springtime in Tuscany
We ditched the crowded streets of Seattle for a short vacation in Tuscany's beautiful countryside. After the cold winter months, Tuscany's rolling hills are coming back to life and showing their new...
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Bert de Bruijn: Which vSphere version is my VM running on?
Several years ago, I created a list of ESXi versions with matching VM BIOS identifiers. The list is now complete up to vSphere 6.7 Update 2.Your Linux runs on a VMware VM, but which on which ESXi...
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Staf Wagemakers: Building Your Own Docker Base Images (Part 1: Debian...
I was using docker on an Odroid U3, but my Odroid stopped working. I switched to another system that is i386 only.You’ll find my journey to build docker images for i386 below.Reasons to build your own...
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Frank Goossens: Easter bunny special: Autoptimize 2.5
Autoptimize 2.5 has been released earlier today (April 22nd).Main focus of this release is more love for image optimization, now on a separate tab and including lazyload and WebP support.Lots of other...
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Mattias Geniar: Requesting certificates with Let’s Encrypt’s official certbot...
The post Requesting certificates with Let’s Encrypt’s official certbot client appeared first on ma.ttias.be.There's plenty of guides on this already, but I recently used Let's Encrypt certbot client...
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