Frank Goossens: Ik ben niet gelovig, maar …
… voor deze uitspraak laat ik Paus Franciscus hier wel graag aan het woord;Men vindt altijd geld om oorlog te voeren, wapens te kopen en zonder scrupules financiële operaties te leiden maar er...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: NoSuchCon Wrap-Up Day #3
Here we go with a review of the last day. As usual, the social event had huge impacts on some attendees but after coffee everything was almost back to normal. The day started with Braden Thomas who...
View ArticleFabian Arrotin: Switching from Ethernet to Infiniband for Gluster access (or...
As explained in my previous (small) blog post, I had to migrate a Gluster setup we have within CentOS.org Infra. As said in that previous blog post too, Gluster is really easy to install, and sometimes...
View ArticleFOSDEM organizers: Keysigning: submit your keys
Instructions on how to participate in the FOSDEM 2015 keysigning event have been published and the keyserver is accepting submissions. The annual keysigning event at FOSDEM is one of the largest of its...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: The power of self-managed teams in Drupal
Topic: DrupalLeadershipThe concept of official initiatives came out of lessons learned from the Drupal 7 development. We learned a lot from that and in a recent blog post about Drupal initiative leads,...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: Detecting Suspicious Devices On-The-Fly
Just a link to my guest diary posted today on isc.sans.edu. I briefly introduced a method to perform permanent vulnerability scanning of newly detected hosts. The solution is based on OSSEC, ArpWatch...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Music from Our Tube; John Dummer’s Famous Music Band – Nine...
Heard it on Radio Nova a couple of times already, this (John Dummer’s Famous Music Band – Nine by nine) appeals to my inner folkie;Watch this video on YouTube or on Easy Youtube.(clearly not really...
View ArticleFrederic Hornain: When application requests start piling up…
When application requests start piling up, OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat® can help you keep up with demand. This Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) lets developers deploy on their time, optimizes...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Presentation: Managing Zabbix Hosts with Puppet’s Config...
At the previous Puppet User Group in Belgium I gave a talk about how to manage Zabbix Hosts with Puppet's Exported Resources. After some tweaking of the presentation to get it OK-ish to be published...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Enable SPDY in Nginx on CentOS 6
SPDY is the protocol designed by Google, which is later to be known as HTTP/2. Nginx supports this protocol, on top of SSL connections, and since recent versions it has the --with-http_spdy_module...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Force Redirect From HTTP to HTTPs On A Custom Port in Nginx
If you're running an Nginx vhost on a custom port, with SSL enabled, browsing to the site without HTTPs will trigger the following Nginx error.400 Bad Request The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Music form Our Tube: (Can’t) Stand still with Flight Facilities
This one (Flight Facilities featuring Nicky Green) is already a year old, but I just “discovered” it on KCRW.Watch this video on YouTube or on Easy Youtube.Love the eighties drumcompouter-sound (as...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: PHP’s OPCache and Symlink-based Deploys
In PHP =< 5.4, there was APC. And in APC, there was the apc.stat option to check the timestamps on files to determine if they've changed, and a new version should be cached. However, in PHP 5.5+, it...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Nginx & SPDY error: net::ERR_SPDY_PROTOCOL_ERROR
I recently enabled SPDY on this blog, and once in a while I got the following error in my browser, causing chunks of the page (javascript, CSS, ...) to stop loading.net::ERR_SPDY_PROTOCOL_ERRORThe...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Azure Cloud Outage Root Cause Analysis
I don't particularly enjoy outages, but I do like reading about their root cause analysis afterwards. It's a valuable place to learn about mistakes made and often shares a lot of insights into (the...
View ArticleFrederic Hornain: Red Hat 2015 Customer Priorities Survey
Customers reporting interest in cloud, containers, Linux, and OpenStack for 2015More information at http://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog/red-hat-2015-customer-priorities-surveyKind RegardsFrederic
View ArticleJoram Barrez: Activiti + Spring Boot docs and example
With the Activiti 5.17.0 release going out any minute now, one of the things we did was writing down documentation on how to use this release together with Spring Boot. If you missed it, me and my...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Interviewing Systems Administrators
... it probably makes more sense for you to ask open ended questions about things you care about. "So, we have a lot of web servers here. What’s your experience with managing them?"andWe all have our...
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: Introducing libjoy
I've owned a Logitech Wingman Gamepad Extreme since pretty much forever, and although it's been battered over the years, it's still mostly functional. As a gamepad, it has 10 buttons. What's special...
View ArticleFOSDEM organizers: Guided sightseeing tours
If you intend to bring your non-geek partner and/or kids to FOSDEM, they may be interested in exploring Brussels while you attend the conference. Like previous years, FOSDEM is organising sightseeing...
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