Wim Coekaerts: The Ksplice differentiator
It's been exactly two years since we acquired a small startup called Ksplice. Ksplice as a company created the zero downtime update technology for the Linux kernel and they provided a service to their...
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: Noise reduction
--- .forward-old 2013-07-25 09:33:39.302168001 +0200 +++ .forward 2013-07-25 09:35:26.362168000 +0200 @@ -669,6 +669,12 @@ if $h_list-id: contains debian-devel then + if $h_subject: contains "systemd"...
View ArticleBert de Bruijn: SSD overprovisioning in vSphere
SSD vendors like Samsung or Intel often provide tools to reserve some space on your SSD that can be used by the internal algorithms for better wear-leveling, longevity, garbage collection, and...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Chris Cornell - Black hole sun
Topic: PersonalFavorite musicA song that is both sad and pretty, sung with the voice of a god. To me, it is about how it is really difficult for a person to create their own life and their own freedom.
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Managing comments on multiple WordPress sites
Topic: MollomWordpressDrupalThere is a pursuit we all share; not having to deal with spammers. The promise of a clean spam-free web.With that in mind, I'm pleased to announce that we released a new...
View ArticlePhilip Van Hoof: In agreement
Surprisingly I’m in agreement with what Richard has to say in this specific context.
View ArticleKris Buytaert: Robomow vs iRobot·
(aka the follow up to http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/testing-robomow-510) Lennert was really helpful in dropping by and providing us with some extra isolaters for the cable... the RoboMow is now doing...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: DNS Amplification Attack: Is Belgium Safe?
For a while, DDoS are back on stage and one of the classic techniques still used today is the DNS Amplification attack. I won’t explain again the ins and outs, there are plenty of websites available...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Music from our Tube: Kellylee Evans covers “Alors on Danse”
Stromae‘s original hit “Alors on Danse” in English, in an acoustic version by Canadian jazz and soul vocalist Kellylee Evans:Watch this video on YouTube or on Easy Youtube.(as heard on Radio...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Acquia Cloud Site Factory
Topic: Acquia HostingAcquiaMany organizations have long had the need to maintain multiple websites as part of their digital marketing and enablement efforts. But when the number of sites tallied across...
View ArticleWard Vandewege: I object to the new Massachusetts Tax on Software Services
I object to the new “Sales and Use Tax on Computer and Software Services” (“the Tax”) which was passed as part of the Transportation Act.I don’t mind paying higher taxes if the Commonwealth needs more...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Puppet: Error 400 on SERVER ArgumentError: malformed format...
Here's an error to screw with your debugging skills.~$ puppet agent -t Info: Retrieving plugin Info: Loading facts in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/concat_basedir.rb ... Info: Loading facts in...
View ArticleThomas Vander Stichele: morituri 0.2.2 “my bad” released
The 0.2.1 release contained a bug causing “rip offset” find to fail. That’s annoying for new users, so I spent some time repenting in brown paper bag hell, and fixed a few other bugs besides. Hence, my...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Les filons chocolatifères de la Lune
Télécharger « Les filons chocolatifères de la Lune » :Format .epub– Format .pdf— Papiers s’il-vous-plait !Depuis sa cahute de plexiglas blindé, le cerbère aux sourcils épais inspecte ma cybercarte.—...
View ArticlePaul Cobbaut: regex
I needed a regex to append \index{foo} to any occurrence of **foo** so i wrote 's/\*\*\([^*]*\)\*\*/\*\*\1\*\*\\index{\1}/g' and it worked the very first time! Yes I feel nerdy today :-) :-)
View ArticleFrank Goossens: De Geest van het Verleden in Evere
Elke ochtend (behalve op mijn thuiswerkdagen vanzelfsprekend) rij ik langs dit stukje herinnering;De uitleg; ik werk op de grens tussen Schaarbeek, Haren en Evere. Van 1914 tot in de jaren ’50 was er...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Power users rejoice; WP YouTube Lyte has an API
Power users of WP YouTube Lyte might be particularly interested in the version that is being pushed out as we speak. 1.3.0 comes with an API, allowing you to substantially change the way the plugin...
View ArticleRuben Vermeersch: node-apk-parser – Extract Android Manifest info from an APK...
This was written some time ago, but might still be interesting to release: node-apk-parser.If you ever tried to extract data from an Android APK file (such as the application name), you’ll have noticed...
View ArticlePaul Cobbaut: Recovering lvm2 on degraded mdadm raid 1
An mdadm raid 1 had one disk crash, the other was moved to a new computer (/dev/sdb2).Step 1: Does fdisk see the disk: yesroot@debian6~# fdisk -l /dev/sdbDisk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016...
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