Claudio Ramirez: Perl@Fosdem: thanks!
So far, the reactions to the Perl presence at Fosdem have been great. The dev-room was more than packed most of the day, the Perl booth was by far the nicest there (biggest Perl library in the world,...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Fosdem 2015 Notes
The post Fosdem 2015 Notes appeared first on ma.ttias.be.Last weekend was Fosdem 2015. For some of the talks I attended, I took some detailed notes. Here are links to each of those.Ntimed, an NTPD...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Deep Insights: The Kernel Boot Process
The post Deep Insights: The Kernel Boot Process appeared first on ma.ttias.be.You've got to love collaboration. Especially on documentation. The github repo 0xAX/linux-insides has a fantastic set of...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Game of Chromes
The post Game of Chromes appeared first on ma.ttias.be.I saw this a few days ago on Twitter, but never paid much attention to it. Until my internet went down, and it popped up. In my browser.If you're...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: Restricting Access to Flash Files with Squid
Is “swf” the new “wtf“? What’s happening with the Flash player? The Adobe’s multimedia platform has been targeted by multiple 0-days since the beginning of 2015! Just have a look on cvedetails.com. Two...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Check if Value is Present in Array in Puppet
The post Check if Value is Present in Array in Puppet appeared first on ma.ttias.be.I somehow keep having to google this, and the first hits are bugreports or old posts (pre 2010) that require inlined...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: FCC: Net Neutrality in the United States
The post FCC: Net Neutrality in the United States appeared first on ma.ttias.be.Now we (well, the US) is getting somewhere.The internet must be fast, fair and open. That is the message I’ve heard from...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: What does a webtech addict do when in a Tesla?
Well, checking out the browser, off course!I had the opportunity to ride along with a friend in his brand new Tesla yesterday. Great ride, but you know that already, so I checked out the browser and...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Clearing All Data From PuppetDB (exported resources)
The post Clearing All Data From PuppetDB (exported resources) appeared first on ma.ttias.be.I had an annoying problem in my test environment when working Puppet's exported resources, which was caused...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Growing Drupal in Latin America
When I visited Brazil in 2011, I was so impressed by the Latin American Drupal community and how active and passionate the people are. The region is fun and beautiful, with some of the most amazing...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Alt-J on Arte with La Blogotheque
If you hurry (the vid is up until tomorrow evening, February 10th), you can watch Alt-J perform live in “La chapelle des Petits Augustins des Beaux Arts” thanks to Arte & La Blogotheque.Possibly...
View ArticleKris Buytaert: 2014 vs 2015 interest in Open Source Configuration Management
A couple of people asked me to results of the survey of the 2015 vs 2014 Configuration Management Camp room interrests.This is a bunch of 350 last year and 420 people telling us what tools they are...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Service Side Push in HTTP/2 With nghttp2
The post Service Side Push in HTTP/2 With nghttp2 appeared first on ma.ttias.be.At this pace of development, nghttp2 is a project to keep an eye on. We implemented HTTP/2 server push in nghttpx and we...
View ArticlePhilip Van Hoof: Huge respect for German chancellor Merkel
I, myself, actually would not be able to live with not having made this attempt – Angela Merkel.
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Motivational bull rebuffed
Just found this gem on the interwebz;When “I” is replaced by “we”, even “illness” becomes “wellness”.I’m not that into that group-motivational bull, so I had to refrain myself from replying;And I’ll...
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: Docker
... is the new hype these days. Everyone seems to want to be part of it; even Microsoft wants to allow Docker to run on its platform. How they visualise that is slightly beyond me, seen as how Docker...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Three Tiers of Package Managers
The post Three Tiers of Package Managers appeared first on ma.ttias.be.There are too many effing package managers. No, seriously -- there are. If you look at a typical Linux server with a modern...
View ArticleSébastien Wains: Android Automagic: enable or disable motion detection on...
This has been tested on DCS-930L and DCS-5020L<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes' ?> <data version="1.25.0"> <trigger type="wifi_connected">...
View ArticleSébastien Wains: Bash: loop until a connection is successful
I use Terminator as my terminal app, and use the "watch for activity" feature a lot. With the following command, I'd get notified as soon as the connection is opened.while ! nc -vz localhost 3306; do...
View ArticleSébastien Wains: Pipe tcpdump trafic into Wireshark from a remote server
This command will allow you to pipe trafic generated by tcpdump on a remote machine into Wireshark running on your local machine:ssh root@dest tcpdump -U -s0 -w - 'tcp port 389' | wireshark -k -i -
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