More btrfs goodness: snapshots
As I am currently working with KVM KVM and I will have some big disk image files hanging around, I thought it could be a good opportunity to give a try to the btrfs snapshot and subvolume support....
View ArticleTip: Faster remote shells with multiplexed SSH
Edit ~/.ssh/config (or /etc/ssh/ssh_config for sitewide configuration) and add the following snippet: Host * ControlMaster auto ControlPersist 120 ControlPath ~/.ssh/socket-%r@%h:%p This will create a...
View ArticleConvert repositories with fast-{export,import}
Update 2010-01-23: Nowadays the plugin is packaged in Debian (package bzr-fastimport) and Ubuntu (package bzr-fastexport). Once installed you can just go and use bzr fast-export instead of the alias....
View ArticleMeet Bill
It has been in the oven for some time, but now it is ready for release... Bill version 0.1 has just hit the lines! In short, Bill is a solution for creating high-quality Bash code using reusable...
View ArticleBill 0.1-2 released
I have just relased version 0.1-2 of Bill, your favourite accompaniment for your shell-code meals. Albeit I have plans for an upcoming 0.2 which will break some backwards compatibility, this is a just...
View ArticlePython talks Collectd
I have been playing lately with collectd again, which is a very nice piece of software to monitor out things, especially when you want more than just the network statistics that other tools like MRTG....
View ArticleSome news, including Bill 0.2 release
Time has passed since the latest time I blogged about something, and some things have happened, so I think it is a good occasion to write some words. The first news is that I have just released Bill...
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See you at DebConf 9
I will pick up my car and embark myself into a 8-hour trip to reach Cáceres tomorrow in the evening, after 699 km of road trip. The goal: attending (and enjoying!) the ninth edition of the Debian...
View ArticleFirst day at the DebConf 9
I arrived yesterday at the main venue after a the long trip by car: ~700km in a car without air conditioning. I was very tired so I headed up for my room (which is in an ancient building at the old...
View ArticleMore DebConf 9 adventures
Now it looks like it is time to complete my previous post about DebConf 9, after a tiresome journey back from Cáceres to Coruña the 30th, an Igalia assembly the 31st (the first one ever for me :-D),...
View ArticleFactor out your Apache-fu with mod_macro
For nearly all HTTP-serving related work, our software of choice is the Apache web server. Lately, we have been moving some old setups which were still running Apache 1.3 to the latest version in the...
View ArticlePython recipe: Functional config file parsing
Sometimes one has to parse programmatically some file containing key=value pairs. In the world of systems administration this means configuration files most of the time. Also, one thing I like is...
View ArticleHow to make the Python interpreter friendlier
We are doing quite some coding in Python lately (well, and also at spare time), and it is always nice to have the possibility of having the interactive interpreter to play with. But sometimes my mind...
View Articlevfand: A daemon to control fan speed in Vaio laptops
Today I got tired of getting frequent lock-ups in my laptop, a Vaio TZ11MN/N which has been serving me just fine the during the past three years. I decided to investigate a bit because the machine was...
View ArticleDMon: Process monitoring with style
Have you ever wanted to run a lengthy process making sure that it will be restarted on failure? Did you need at some point to daemonize a “normal” program? Well, maybe you already knew about...
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Some thoughts (and code) around GObject-Introspection
There is one single thing that is, in my opinion, generating a fair amount of hype and reinvigorated interest in the GNOME platform: GObject-Introspection (or “GI” to save some typing). In short, it...
View ArticleDMon status report: evolution to 0.3.7
When I first wrote about DMon, I pointed out that version 0.3 could be already installed from our APT repository, which hosts flavours for i386, amd64 and armel. Five weeks have passed and I feel like...
View Article”I am alive” update + going to FOSDEM
It's been a long time since I posted an update, and as I am going to FOSDEM this year for first time, it looks like now is a good moment to tell everybody that I am still alive and kicking. Similarly...
View ArticleLive is live: How to use Tracker from Qt apps and have your view of the world...
I have been working lately with the Qt framework and the Tracker store. The first thing I noticed once got to know about the current Tracker incarnations is that it not just another metadata crawler...
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DMon 0.4: New guts & new features
Wow, that was a lot of time without me posting anything (five months), mostly because I am investing most of my spare time after work here in Finland for socializing. Still, from time to time one has...
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