Some weeks ago I bought a Dell XPS 9570 laptop to run Ubuntu Linux 18.04 natively. Installing Ubuntu was done using github project that patches the default Ubuntu iso to match the hardware config of the Dell XPS pretty closely. The only minor annoyance was the system fans slightly spinning up and down every few […]
Last weekend I wiped my Macbook Pro 15″ late 2013 and installed Ubuntu 18.04 on it. The install was painless, but there were some tiny bits and pieces missing as to hardware settings and drivers. I was able to fix most issues searching the web, but I thought I summarize it here for future reference […]
Today I tried to connect my laptop running Ubuntu 18.04 to the govroam wifi network (equivalent to the eduroam thing I guess?). The default settings supplied by Ubuntu did not work and I could not find any official documentation specific for Ubuntu. These are the settings that worked for me : Security : WPA & […]
De afgelopen weken eindelijk tijd gemaakt om de meeste websites om te klussen van apache httpd + php-fpm naar nginx + php-fpm. Loopt een stuk soepeler. Met de nieuwe setup heb ik ook het ISPConfig control panel losgelaten. Alles gaat via puppet wat in mijn geval een flinke versimpeling is die tijd oplevert. Er moeten […]
Once every blue moon I try some sort of Linux as the native operating system on my laptop. As I tend to have a recent laptop, this usually ends as a short experiment where I find out one or two devices just will not work. As my wife moved to my previous laptop when I […]
When a leased server has bandwidth to spare, I try to give it to the tor network. Project servers come and go, but I am happy to report that my relay node is back in business. Aug 5 14:45:48 droid Tor[8966]: Bootstrapped 0%: Starting Aug 5 14:45:48 droid Tor[8966]: Starting with guard context “default” Aug […]
During Puppetconf 2016 Github announces it was releasing one of its internal test tools called octocatalog-diff as open source. What the tools basicly does is compile the catalog for a certain machine using your old and new puppetcode to show you the diff output. This allows you to see the impact of your code without […]