Ward Vandewege: when `scontrol show daemons` returns nothing…
Slurm uses thescontrol show daemons command to figure out what it should run on the machine it is being invoked on. If you have a config file error, that command will return a blank line.And...
View ArticlePhilip Van Hoof: Why do you need Tracker?
(Or why our project’s name wasn’t wrong after all)First and foremost, because the Internet isn’t available everywhere all the times. To put it simple: 3G (and 4G) suck. The latency is a joke in even...
View ArticleLaurent Bigonville: Connection downgrade from https to http in Firefox
Note to self, when calling a page over https, all the connections created by javascript must also be over https. Otherwise, Firefox will not try to connect without, unfortunately, even complaining.I...
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Wim Leers: mr-drupal: simpler Drupal code updating & deployment
What?This article proposes a novel, simpler way of managing Drupal sites (where “managing” in this case is solely code updating & deployment).It relies on only one command-line tool: mr (“a...
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Frank Goossens: Music from my green garden; Laura Mvula
I should be in Brussels, but I’m at home, working from the peace & quiet of the improvised office in my green garden, whilst listening to Laura Mvula:Watch this video on YouTube or on Easy...
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Xavier Mertens: The Belgian SIEM… wounds my heart with a monotonous languor!
Lot of Belgian newspapers and sites reported today (Example of article - in French) that a project of law will be discussed soon (deriving from the EU Data Retention Directive) to request providers of...
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Lionel Dricot: La révolte des rebelles apatrides
Lorsque j’ai découvert Wikileaks pour la première fois, j’ai été émerveillé par un outil qui ne pouvait qu’amener plus de transparence, qui pourrait aider les oppressés à lutter contre les...
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Wouter Verhelst: Mark groet 's morgens de dingen
Or, Mark greeting the things in the morningDag ventje met de fiets op de vaas met de bloemHi little guy with the bike on the vase with the flowerploem ploemploum ploumDag stoel naast de tafelHi chair...
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Joeri Poesen: Launching a Pan-African Open Hardware Supply Chain
I started the African chapter of my life in Senegal in January 2010, with the launch of Bantalabs. The explicit aims being to do something useful, and to test the hypothesis that it's possible to build...
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Lionel Dricot: Ce blog est payant
Voilà, ce blog est désormais officiellement un blog payant. En contrepartie, je vous laisse la liberté de choisir le prix ainsi que la manière de me payer.Comme je l’ai déjà écrit, vous pouvez utiliser...
View ArticleJochen Maes: pyatomiadns release
\\//!Today I released pyatomiadns, a work in progress. I've been migrating my whole infrastructure and I use ansible to setup and configure everything. At least that is the goal and I'm adding tools I...
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Kris Buytaert: Using broken development frameworks , or why we don't use Zurmo
People often wonder why DBA's used to hate developers, and with DBA's also the System Engineers, (note that I just expanded devops by adding dba's to the picture..) So let me tell you a story .. A...
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Kris Buytaert: Open Business Models
When I started writing this I wrote "Last week Opscode came" obviously now that is "A couple of months ago Opscode came with a bunch of announcements ... one of them being that they are also going to...
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Xavier Mertens: Post-Analysis of My WordPress Bruteforce Attack
A few days weeks ago, I wrote a blog post (link) about a (unsuccessful) WordPress bruteforce attack agains this site. I captured the attackers’ traffic in a big pcap file. It was a good opportunity to...
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Frederic Descamps: innotop with support for 5.6
My colleague Kenny hit a bug with Innotop and MySQL 5.6. He submitted a bug with a patch.This is a new pre-release rpm of Innotop (1.9.0-3) that includes that patch.Enjoy it...
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Frank Goossens: Why I love the mobile web
This is why I’m a big fan of good mobile websites; the normal BBC Sport Formula 1 page loads in 6 seconds, where the mobile version loads in a mere 2 seconds (when over cable, DSL and 3G are off course...
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Lionel Dricot: À l’ombre de la Grande Boucle (première partie)
Ceci est le billet 1 sur 1 dans la série À l'ombre de la Grande Boucle— Monsieur le président directeur général, la parole est à vous.— Merci Boris ! Avez-vous vérifié la sécurité de la pièce ? Pas de...
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Thomas Vander Stichele: morituri 0.2.1 “married” released
I finally managed to set aside a few hours this weekend to fix some smaller issues in morituri and put out a new release. (For those who don’t know, morituri is an accurate CD ripper for Linux)Life’s...
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Frank Goossens: Music from our Tube; Alt-J live on KEXP
42 minutes live music by Alt-J, which some claim is one of the hottest bands this side of the North-pole;Watch this video on YouTube or on Easy Youtube.Thank you KEXP!Possibly related twitterless...
View ArticleKarl Vogel: DAoC - The middle man
We've already seen that the key generation isn't up to par, neither is the actual way how the RC4 encryption is used... but there's an even bigger issue. The game is susceptible to a man-in-the-middle...
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