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I’m diving into Kubernetes for a couple of months now.

Last week I upgraded my Linux Mint 18 MATE desktop distro to 18.3.

I’m a bit of a stressed person, and when I’m not home, I like to have a webcam streaming what’s going on, mainly to see how my dog is doing.

I always manage to get myself into weird issues… I have this (pretty old) wrt54g router that works well with dd-wrt v3.0-r34311 vpn release.

I’m running a couple of demos on how and why to use AWS Athena on a Meetup event tonight here at my hometown of Valencia.

Yeah well, it happened.

It is possible to run FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro from an USB drive.

I’m kind of back in the mining arena.

This happened:

At ${DAYJOB} I happen to manipulate quite a few AWS accounts for different customers, and I find it really annoying to log out from one web console, to log into a new one, with the right credentials, account ids and MFA.

While trying to find a clean method to remove line numbers from the history command, I found an interesting trick by using the HISTTIMEFORMAT environment variable.

Another quicky.

Quick one.

Here in Spain, I chose Movistar as my Internet provider, I must say I’m pretty happy with it, symmetric 300Mbps fiber optics and good service.

pkgsrc’s collectd does not support the thermal plugin, so in order to publish thermal information I had to use the exec plugin: LoadPlugin exec # more plugins <Plugin exec> Exec "nobody:nogroup" "/home/imil/bin/temp.sh" </Plugin> And write this…

I found myself searching ridiculously too long to achieve what I believed was a simple task: to apply an Ansible role to newly created instances… started by an Auto Scaling Group.

No, I’m not following the hype, only I like to test things plus I feel there will be a growing demand for docker at ${DAYWORK}.

At ${DAYJOB} I’m using a FreeBSD workstation for quite a while.

I wanted to use monit as my desktop-alerting system, meaning that when a service or a machine is unreachable on my personnal network, I’d see a red dot somewhere on my desktop.

So I use this great cheat sheet in order to use letsencrypt free Certificate authority on my own servers, but while this small doc is very straightforward it doesn’t explain much about nginx’s configuration.

I recently added a fantastic graphing tool named facette to pkgsrc.

I have read a shitload of overcomplicated setups to bring up a postfix / dspam SMTP + antispam server, and finally came to a much lighter and simpler configuration by basically reading documentation and real life examples.

Not so long ago, I wrote about using pkgsrc on Debian GNU/Linux, and assumed you’d start an installed service using rc.d.

If you’re used to this website you might have noticed the layout has somewhat changed.

Here’s a simple solution in order to forward GRE tunnels to a server, or here a virtual machine, which is located behind a GNU/Linux gateway: # iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p gre -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.1 # modprobe nf_conntrack_proto…

If you recently tried to install NetBSD 7.0 using Linux KVM you might have encountered the following failure: This bug have been recently fixed on the 7-branch but the official ISO images are not yet updated, so you’ll have to use NetBSD daily builds mini…

A couple of weeks ago, Clark / @jeaneymerit told me he was digging into AngularJS, and as I’m working on a private project where a static website is involved, I thought this framework could help me make that website lightweight in terms of external depend…

The hotel I stay in Ibiza is awesome, it’s in front of the sea, the staff is nice and welcoming, there’s this amazing pool, AND… they have pretty good WiFi for the Island standards.

So this happened :)

While I tend to appreciate debian GNU/Linux, its tendency to be quite late on software versionning is sometimes annoying.

For a mysterious reason, EC2 VPN connection informations are stored in XML within the JSON data retrieved by either boto or the awscli command line tool.

Yes, I know I write a lot about AWS these days, but you know, obsession is my thing.

So you’re using AWS CloudFormation in order to bring up complex infrastructures; haven’t you already told yourself that instead of writing down all those JSON lines by hand, you could bring more fun to your architect life?

AWS is an amazing piece of cloud, but the documentation is not always clear.

Long time no see huh?

Proceeding with my Christmas presents, I have refactored my ${HOME} lab.

Snoopy is a pretty cool piece of software that can log every exec(3) call to syslog.

Dynamic module loading via modload has a couple of issues with a NetBSD domU kernel, so it is not possible to modload iscsi.kmod.

My “mediacenter”, a small x86 machine plugged to the living-room TV was a diskless (PXE/NFS root) Debian Wheezy until the past week end.

At ${DAYWORK}, I happen to use IBM’s cloud: SoftLayer.

I recently had the need to mount an UFS2 (NetBSD) partition under GNU/Linux, and while this is surprising, a standard Linux distro, Debian in my case, is not able to mount it in read/write mode.

Well, it’s that time of the year again, next week I’ll be flying to my beloved Ibiza.

I came across an annoying behaviour while trying to connect to a remote KVM hypervisor from a FreeBSD GUI. virt-manager failed to connect to the server and showed the following error message: In short, virt-manager tries to access to /usr/local/var/run/li…

I recently borrowed a Dell machine at work, model E4300, a nice little laptop whose graphical display is done by a much common Intel 4500MHD.

A while ago, I had my ${DAYWORK} workstation running NetBSD, and honestly, it did pretty well.

A while ago, I had my ${DAYWORK} workstation running NetBSD, and honestly, it did pretty well.

Ok, je vous l’accorde je poste pas des masses.

Comme je l’expliquais dans le post précédent, je suis passé chez SFR/neuf avec un forfait fibre.

Il y a deux ans ½, je m’extasiais sur le “fibrage” de mon immeuble par Free.

It’s been going on in my mind for a while, and I finally dove into Android development.