Random tech topics I find interesting to share
As much as I enjoy hardcore command line stuff, it is nice to have some eye candy there as well. Like htop, for example. However I have recently discovered vtop. Not sure about the practicality of it but it sure looks nice (albeit at the expense of some additional cpu cycles): If you have node…
Yes, it’s possible since beginning of October if you run FreeBSD 11-CURRENT. I have waited for quite a while for this. This means no more need for KVM or XEN or what have you. Bhyve does it all. It’s a bit rough around the edges. Biggest issue (at least for me) is the lack of…
I love listening to podcasts while commuting since I get to learn something on the way. This is especially great on longer trips. I have been using the iOS podcasts app so that I add select podcast episodes to “On the go” playlist and then whenever I’m driving somewhere I know that I have a…
Yes, it works. How cool is that? The hardest part is to set up your environment and even that is easy. Kudos to MS. What you’ll need: a linux machine, golang, packer, Azure plugin for packer, nodejs, Azure cli tools and an Azure subscription. I’ll start with a clean Ubuntu 14.04 machine. Let’s start by…
Yes, this is probably common knowledge in the gamer community, but it was a bit surprising to me since I’m no gamer. Imagine, you are shooting your way through the mission and you have couple of good guys with you, yet they can’t seem to shoot anyone and they also never die. They are worse…
For I while now I wanted to complete the Linux Foundation Certified Sysadmin exam and this week I did it. Yay! If you’re a linux admin then this will not present too much difficulty to pass it. The LF certification page explains what domains and competencies will be tested and this can be used to…
So I recently bought a Surface 3. Yes, I know. My home network has been a mix of OSX, iOS, Linux and FreeBSD devices but now it will also have one Windows machine. This is also my first time buying a computer that runs Windows. The device itself is quite awesome, I really do like…
If you have a ZFS based storage server and other machines in the network, it would be a shame not to share the awesome storage with them. I have 2 servers at home. frisbie is the ZFS storage machine and yotta is just a powerful machine but with only one disk, so I’d like to…
Docker is now available of FreeBSD. How cool is that? And setup is so simple that it would be a shame not to try it out: sudo pkg install docker-freebsd ca_root_nss As seems to be the case quite often with FreeBSD packages, after installing the package you get quite nice instructions on what to do…
Yesterday I started using Ghost and I simply ran npm start in a Tmux session. This is obviously not the best way to do it so I have made some improvements now. After reading a bit of deployment docs, which by the way are very nice, I decided to give pm2 a try. So if…