Julien Pivotto: A fix for the Puppet Agent not exiting with SIGINT
Since Puppet 3.7.5 and 4.0.0, the Puppet Agent does not exit when it receives a SIGINT signal (^C). That is very annoying when developing Puppet modules.A fix has been pushed yesterday by Josh Cooper...
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: Planet Grep configuration now on github
For the longest time, the Planet Grep configuration was stored in a subversion repository on one of my servers. This worked, until the server was moved around once too often, and I apparently killed...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Chemical Brothers & Beck; no video, just “artwork”
The Chemical Brothers released an album earlier this year and there’s one track on there which I really love; “Wide Open”. It’s a pretty melancholic song, with vocals by Beck and it builds up to become...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Linux increase ip_local_port_range TCP port range
The post Linux increase ip_local_port_range TCP port range appeared first on ma.ttias.be.For heavy traffic network servers, like proxy servers or load balancers, you may need to increase the networking...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Nginx: Cannot assign requested address for upstream
The post Nginx: Cannot assign requested address for upstream appeared first on ma.ttias.be.A few days ago, I ran into the following interesting Nginx error message.[crit] 12889#0: *32401195 connect()...
View ArticleLes Jeudis du Libre: Mons, le 19 novembre : L’histoire de Microsoft et le...
Ce jeudi 19 novembre 2015 à 19h se déroulera la 43ème séance montoise des Jeudis du Libre de Belgique.Le sujet de cette séance : L’histoire de Microsoft et le logiciel libreThématique :...
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Auto resize screen size for Windows 10 guest VMs in Virtualbox
The post Auto resize screen size for Windows 10 guest VMs in Virtualbox appeared first on ma.ttias.be.If you're running Virtualbox on your system to virtualise Windows or Linux VMs, either manually or...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Les imposteurs
Je sursaute ! Sur ce coup, je ne l’avais pas entendu venir.Nerveusement, je ferme le jeu Facebook ouvert dans mon navigateur et adresse un sourire à mon chef de service.– Ça va Gérard, je peux t’aider...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: The Mobile Network Iceberg
[The post The Mobile Network Iceberg has been first published on /dev/random]This is not a breaking news: The “Internet of Things” or connected objects is growing at the speed of the light. To convince...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: “It is what is is” now with more cowbell!
Just got a notification that Laurent Garnier’s eclectic radioshow “It is what is is” re-emerged from the dead on Radio Meuh (straight from the Alps). You can listen to the first episode on Soundcloud.
View ArticleMattias Geniar: Simulate low-bandwidth conditions with Chrome’s network...
The post Simulate low-bandwidth conditions with Chrome’s network throttling appeared first on ma.ttias.be.Chrome has a built-in developer feature that allows you to simulate low-bandwidth conditions on...
View ArticleSerge van Ginderachter: Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: Minidebconf Cambridge
My main reason for being here was to join the Debconf video team sprint. But hey, since I'm here anyway, why not join all of it, right?Right.Apart from the video team stuff that I've been involved in,...
View ArticleJeroen De Dauw: Rewindable PHP Generators
Today I was refactoring some code in one of my libraries, and ended up replacing a named Iterator class with a Generator. To my surprise this changed behaviour, which I noticed due to a broken test. A...
View ArticleJeroen De Dauw: Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader
I’ve created a small PHP library to read from, and iterate through, Wikidata/Wikibase JSON dumps.Wikidata is the free knowledge base that anyone can edit, and serves as a central data repository for...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Here we go Music from Tokyo, London, U.S., Korea
Yay, there’s a new Here we go Magic song out:Watch this video on YouTube.Possibly related twitterless twaddle:Audio-only YouTube embedding with WP YouTube Lyte 0.7 Music from Our Tube: Jeff Buckley,...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Printeurs 37
Ceci est le billet 37 sur 37 dans la série PrinteursG89 a été surpris dans le hangar par Nellio et Georges Farreck. J’ai réussi à me débarrasser du plus jeune. Il devenait trop méfiant. Le plus vieux,...
View ArticleLuc Stroobant: Icinga2 Ansible example on Vagrant
Icinga published some Ansible examples on their github, but I didn't find them very useful. It's most of the time only a basic installation and you still have to execute manual steps to finish the...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Impressive WordPress market share
Latest figures project WordPress to power 25% of the top 10 million websites! Take out non-CMS websites and WordPress has 58% marketshare. Incredible!Possibly related twitterless...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: À ceux qui sont morts pour rien !
En 2014, parcourant une exposition consacrée à la première guerre mondiale, je tombe sur une photo d’un monument local souligné de la légende suivante :« À charge des parents, des éducateurs de la...
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