Running GUI apps in Docker containers using VNC

In case you don’t feel like reading yet another rant, this is the gist of it: 1) Run your container and expose port 5901 to your host docker run -p 5901:5901 -t -i ubuntu 2) set up VNC server in the container and run it sudo apt-get install vnc4server vnc4server -geometry 1400×1000 3) export $DISPLAY…

Openvpn on FreeBSD

All of my linux servers are connected over OpenVPN and now came the turn for my new FreeBSD droplet to join them. Ran into one small issue. Upon installing and configuring OpenVPN I was getting this error: Sun Jul 12 17:59:49 2015 us=222242 Cannot allocate TUN/TAP dev dynamically Sun Jul 12 17:59:49 2015 us=222330 Exiting…

Testing jekyll

It has been couple of years at least (more like three) and I am thinking about blogging again. Why? Well, why not. So let’s see if this becomes yet another failed attempt or not. This time I’m using Jekyll as the blog engine. Easy to set up and I relly like the idea of static…