Frederic Hornain: [Open Source Cloud Day] Openshift | PaaS Sessions
On Wednesday December 10 2014, I did a Openshift[1] presentation and workshops @ the Open Source Days event[2] organized by our Belgian partner Kangaroot[3] – Mechelen.I would like to thank Bart...
View ArticleFrederic Hornain: [Open Source Cloud Day] Introduction to Openshift for...
Following my previous post named : [Open Source Cloud Day] Openshift | PaaS SessionsPresentation can be downloded at...
View ArticleFrederic Hornain: [Open Source Cloud Day] Openshift Enterprise v2 Workshop
Following my previous post named : [Open Source Cloud Day] Openshift | PaaS SessionsPresentation can be downloded at...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Varnish tip: see which cookies are being stripped in your VCL
Most Varnish configs contain a lot of logic to strip cookies from the client, to avoid them being sent to the server. This is needed, because cookies are often part of the hash-calculation of a request...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Chrome To Explicitly Mark HTTP Connections As Non-Secure
So 2015 will be the year of HTTPs/SSL/TLS. Chromium, the project behind Chrome, is making plans to mark HTTP connections as "non-secure". We propose that user agents (UAs) gradually change their UX to...
View ArticleFrederic Hornain: [Red Hat Satellite 6] Managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux...
In 2014, Red Hat launched Red Hat® Satellite 6, a new version of its classic Red Hat Enterprise Linux® life-cycle management solution. It includes some of the best in open system-management...
View ArticleFrederic Hornain: [wildfly-extras] Wildfly and Apache Camel
This quick tutorial takes you through the first steps of getting Camel into WildFly[1][2] and provides the initial pointers to get up and running.This explanation is based on the wildfly-camel...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Combine Apache’s HTTP authentication with X-Forwarded-For IP...
Such a long title for a post. If you want to protect a page or an entire website with HTTP authentication, but also want to whitelist a few fixed IPs (for instance: office or VPN IPs), you can combine...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Defcon 22 Videos And Slides Released
Anyone into computer security knows the Defcon conferences. There was one in august of 2014, and the videos and slides of those presentations have now just been released and are free to download and...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Reload Varnish VCL without losing cache data
You can reload the Varnish VCL configuration without actually restarting Varnish. A restart would stop the varnishd process and start it anew, clearing all the cache it has built up in the meantime....
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Operation Socialist: Inside The Belgacom Hack By GCHQ
This is a really interesting article about how the GCHQ managed to hack Belgacom, one of the largest telco's in Belgium. Top-secret GCHQ documents name three male Belgacom engineers who were identified...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Roundup: Belgacom Hack, Defcon, Varnish, HTTPs, Chrome and PHP
Here's what happend last week on this blog, just in case you missed it. The Real Cost of the “S” in HTTPS The Pirate Bay calls it quits Generate PHP core dumps on segfaults in PHP-FPM Varnish tip: see...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Een copywriter staakt niet …
… maar schrijft over zijn ongenoegen met Michel I:Ik heb nog nooit gestaakt, en ben dat in de nabije toekomst ook niet van plan. Vandaag ga ik gewoon werken. Maar dat betekent niet dat ik daarom jullie...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: Automatic MIME Parts Scanning with VirusTotal
Here is a Python script that I developed for my personal use: mime2vt.py. I decided to release it because I think it could be helpful for many of you. In 2012, I started a project called CuckooMX. The...
View ArticleKristof Willen: Oneplus One
My trusty Galaxy Nexus has been by far one of my most beloved phones : I loved the design, the openess and the available development (custom ROMs). It has been running ParanoidAndroid most of the time,...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Varnish FetchError http first read error: -1 11 (Resource...
Just like the Straight insufficient bytes error, this is another error you can see in your varnishlogs. It looks like this. 11 VCL_return c hash 11 VCL_call c pass pass 11 FetchError c http first read...
View ArticleKristof Willen: Perl advent calendar 2014
Holy chestnuts ! I almost forgot to mention the Perl advent calender 2014, your source of lesser known Perl modules. What CPAN modules would Santa use this year to deliver all our presents ?
View ArticleFrederic Hornain: [Wildfly-Camel] XML to DB Data Conversion Small Tutorial
In one of my previous posts[1], I explain how you can install Apache Camel[2] on top of Wildfly[3].In that small tutorial, I am not going to reinvent the wheel. I am just going to explain how you can...
View ArticleFrank 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...
View ArticleFabian 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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