The latest version of OpenBSD contains everything you might need to create a really powerful (SSL) ZNC bouncer in just a few simple steps, fully secured by you very own letsencrypt certificate.
Nothing could be more simple using Exoscale's "exo" command line client.
We'll …
Because of the distributed nature of Ubuntu development, it is sometimes a little difficult for me to keep track of the "special" URLs for various actions or reports that I'm regularly interested in.
Therefore I started gathering them in my personal wiki (I use the excellent "zim" desktop wiki), and …
Out of curiosity, I decided to try and package this blog as a snap package, and it turns out to be an extremely easy and convenient way to deploy a static blog!
There are several advantages that the snappy packaging format bring to the table as far as applications …
Running a mirror for your favorite distribution is much easier than it sounds when leveraging the right tools (and the work of others, including yours truly).
You might be interested to see what we (the Public Cloud team and Web Operations team at Canonical) developed over the years to mirror …
Switching to Gnome 3 and Wayland disabled my right-click. Here's how to fix it.
How to upgrade your "bash on Ubuntu on Windows" install to using the new app.
I sometimes read "building packages X is much easier than building .debs".
While it is probably true that building a debian package is a little more involved than other systems, the debian packaging system adds a lot of value for end users, and properly packaged applications is what makes the …
As you can see, I switched themes!
It's based on fle's very nice pelican theme, "pelican-sober". I finally admitted to myself that maintaining a pelican theme was not a good use of my time, nor did my blog look exceptionally nice.
I think this is a major …
A new LXD feature allows for /home directory mounting in a much nicer way!
Making LXD use the host's apt proxy significantly decreases deployment times.
My first adventure in brewing, starting with a spicy mead.
It maybe a bit tricky to get LXD to mount your /home directory. Here's how!
Unfortunately, it's a little more involved to flash a Samsung S5 using the Heimdall software suite on Ubuntu than it should, so I've compiled a list of necessary steps to get it all working together.
The general process should normally looks like the following, as per Cyanogenmod's flashing guide:
As some of you probably have read, I switched this blog to using OpenBSD's httpd server a few days ago, because I wanted to try new things and it seemed that httpd offered a pretty good out-of-the-box experience, with security and sanity of the code being the main focus.
There …
How I switched my Pelican blog to OpenBSD's new httpd server.
It is important for most sysadmins to have a clear view of the overall trend in their production system.
Since I work on the Landscape project, I wanted to use it's nifty custom graphing feature to get an understanding of the general trends of apache connections for this blog.
How to set up a full Ubuntu mirror on Trusty.
When creating a new keypair since my old key was getting old (and insecure), I decided to backup my private key to an undisclosed location for security.
Unfortunately I did then add a UID to my private key and forgot to re-backup the key, which resulted in my …
If like me you use LXC containers a lot, and are often on the road, you might have also been frustrated about how network-hungry LXC is, in particular when used with Juju. I will show you how to make it automagically use a deb packages cache, to drastically speed up subsequent downloads and installations.
Tips and tricks on using the i3 window manager on Ubuntu
Learn how to install Steam inside a 32bits LXC container, on Saucy.
In this first article about debian/ubuntu packaging, we will learn to rebuild any existing ubuntu package locally, to get more familiar with the various tools used to build debian pacakges.