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Mattias Geniar: Microsofts Open Source Strategy
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.Linus TorvaldsMicrosoft appears to be rebooting internally. After years of fighting the "Linux Cancer" as Steve Ballmer called it, they...
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Frank Goossens: Bijna met een zwaailicht op het hoofd
Na 5 jaar en 1 serieus ongeluk mijn fietsmuts op rust gesteld. De oude was versleten, mijn vrouwtje heeft het geld op de online toonbank neergeteld;De Abus Scraper, zoals gezien bij een collega in het...
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Xavier Mertens: Repression VS. Prevention
This morning, I retweeted a link to an article (in Dutch) published by a Belgian newspaper. It looks that Belgian municipalities (small as well as largest) which do not properly secure their data could...
View ArticleDag Wieers: Couldn't capture screenshot on Cyanogenmod/Android
Today I wanted to create a screenshot on my OnePlus One device with a stock Cyanogenmod 11 M11. Screenshots in recent Android can be made using the Volume-Down + Power buttons simultaneously. However...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Running Kali Linux as a Vagrant Box (virtual machine)
Here's the simplest way to start a Kali Linux virtual machine on your desktop or laptop: run it as a Vagrant box! First, download the latest version of Vagrant, you need at least version 1.6 or newer....
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Clear the APC cache in PHP
How do you clear the APC cache? There are basically two methods: as a PHP developer, you can use the built-in PHP functions -- or as a SysAdmin, you can restart the necessary services to flush the APC...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: 3 Years of Puppet Config Management: lessons learned
A little over 3 years ago, I started using Puppet as a config management system on my own servers. I should've started much sooner, but back then I didn't see the "value" in it. How foolish ... Around...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Remove a single iptables rule
How do you remove a single iptable rule from a large ruleset? The easiest way is to delete the rule by the chain-name and the line-number. Here's an example. ~# iptables -n -L --line-numbers Chain...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: The Chocolatey Kickstarter: Making Windows More Like Linux
Remember when I said Microsoft has an Open Source strategy? Well, this could fit right in. Except it isn't from Microsoft. The Chocolatey Project is an independent effort of porting the package...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: REST API best practices and versioning
This is a short and nice read: Some REST best practices. I especially like the versioning part, which I've been (trying to) tell for years. API versions should be mandatory. This way, you will be...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Follow-up: 3 years of automation with Puppet
Yesterday I blogged about my lessons learned after 3 years of using Puppet. In reply, @roidelapluie also posted his list of lessons learned. Accidentally, also after 3 years. Go figure. And he touches...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web
Eff.org today announced A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web. The biggest obstacle to HTTPS deployment has been the complexity, bureaucracy, and cost of the certificates that HTTPS...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Make HTTPerf use a proxy for connections
I like HTTPerf. It's a simply tool for a simply job: start HTTP calls and benchmark a remote system. But the CLI syntax for making it work with proxies is ... cumbersome. So, here's how to get it to...
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Frank Goossens: Music from Our Tube; Hazey by Glass Animals
Heard this in a TV show a couple of days ago, the percussion made me Shazam it;Watch this video on YouTube or on Easy Youtube.Glass Animals with “Hazey” from their debut album “Zaba”.
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Yet Another Microsoft Windows CVE: Local Privilege Escalation...
As if the SSL/TLS vulnerability dubbed MS14-066 last week wasn't enough, today Microsoft announced an out-of-band patch for a critical Privilege Escalation bug in all Windows Server systems. This time,...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: The PHP circle: from Apache to Nginx and back
As with many technologies, the PHP community too evolves. And over the last 6 or 7 years, a rather remarkable circle has been made by a lot of systems administrators and PHP developers in that regard....
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Dries Buytaert: Weather.com using Drupal
Topic: DrupalAcquiaDrupal sitesOne of the world's most trafficked websites, with more than 100 million unique visitors every month and more than 20 million different pages of content, is now using...
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Xavier Mertens: NoSuchCon Wrap-Up Day #2
Here is my wrap-up for the second day of the conference NoSuchCon organised in Paris. Where is the first wrap-up will you maybe ask? Due to an important last minute change in my planning, I just drove...
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Frank Goossens: I see you baby, purging that spam!
While Akismet does a good job at flagging comments as spam, it by default only purges spam (from the comments and comments_meta tables) after 15 days.So it’s a good thing Akismet now has a filter to...
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Fabian Arrotin: Updating to Gluster 3.6 packages on CentOS 6
I had to do yesterday some maintenance yesterday on our Gluster nodes used within CentOS.org infra. Basically I had to reconfigure some gluster volumes to use Infiniband instead of Ethernet. (I'll...
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