Customize GNOME from i3
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All of your GNOME and gtk applications are configured in i3 with a few simple tricks.
Linux
2019
Deploy monit in OpenShift
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Monit is a tried-and-true monitoring daemon that is easy to deploy. Add it to OpenShift to make monitoring even easier.
Get faster GitLab runners with a ramdisk
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Many cloud providers give you lots of memory with each instance and you can speed up tests and builds by using a ramdisk.
buildah error: vfs driver does not support overlay.mountopt options
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Buildah and podman work well with the vfs storage driver, but the default mount options can cause problems.
Fedora 30 on Google Compute Engine
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Fedora 30 is a great Linux distribution for cloud platforms, but it needs a little work to perform well on Google Compute Engine.
Build containers in GitLab CI with buildah
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My team at Red Hat depends heavily on GitLab CI and we build containers often to run all kinds of tests.
Inspecting OpenShift cgroups from inside the pod
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My team at Red Hat builds a lot of kernels in OpenShift pods as part of our work with the Continuous Kernel Integration (CKI) project.
Get a /56 from Spectrum using wide-dhcpv6
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After writing my last post on my IPv6 woes with my Pixel 3, some readers asked how I’m handling IPv6 on my router lately.
Stop audio pops on Intel HD Audio
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I recently picked up a Dell Optiplex 7060 and I’m using it as my main workstation now.
Automatic floating windows in i3
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The i3 window manager is a fast window manager that helps you keep all of your applications in the right place.
DevConf.CZ 2019 Recap
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DevConf.CZ 2019 wrapped up last weekend and it was a great event packed with lots of knowledgeable speakers, an engaging hallway track, and delicious food.
Using the pressure stall information interface in kernel 4.20
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Fedora 29 now has kernel 4.
2018
Make alt-arrow keys work with terminator and weechat
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As I make the move from the world of GNOME to i3, I found myself digging deeper into the terminator preferences to make it work more like gnome-terminal.
Install testing kernels in Fedora
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If you’re on the latest Fedora release, you’re already running lots of modern packages.
2017
Ensuring keepalived starts after the network is ready
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After a recent OpenStack-Ansible (OSA) deployment on CentOS, I found that keepalived was not starting properly at boot time:
Troubleshooting CyberPower PowerPanel issues in Linux
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I have a CyberPower BRG1350AVRLCD at home and I’ve just connected it to a new device.
Apply the STIG to even more operating systems with ansible-hardening
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Tons of improvements made their way into the ansible-hardening role in preparation for the OpenStack Pike release next month.
Customize LDAP autocompletion format in Thunderbird
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Thunderbird can connect to an LDAP server and autocomplete email addresses as you type, but it needs some adjustment for some LDAP servers.
Enable AppArmor on a Debian Jessie cloud image
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I merged some initial Debian support into the openstack-ansible-security role and ran into an issue enabling AppArmor.
OpenStack-Ansible networking on CentOS 7 with systemd-networkd
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Although OpenStack-Ansible doesn’t fully support CentOS 7 yet, the support is almost ready.
RHEL 7 STIG v1 updates for openstack-ansible-security
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DISA’s final release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) came out a few weeks ago and it has plenty of improvements and changes.
ICC color profile for Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 4th generation
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My new ThinkPad arrived this week and it is working well!
2016
Power 8 to the people
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IBM Edge 2016 is almost over and I’ve learned a lot about Power 8 this week.
Setting up a telnet handler for OpenStack Zuul CI jobs in GNOME 3
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The OpenStack Zuul system has gone through some big changes recently, and one of those changes is around how you monitor a running CI job.
Bring back two and three finger taps in Fedora 24
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Most of the recent Fedora upgrades have been quite smooth.
Lessons learned: Five years of colocation
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Back in 2011, I decided to try out a new method for hosting my websites and other applications: colocation.
Mouse cursor disappears in GNOME 3
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UPDATE: The fixed version of mutter is now in the Fedora updates repository.
Recovering deleted Chrome bookmarks on Linux
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After getting a bit overzealous with cleaning up bookmarks in Chrome, I discovered that I deleted a helpful Gerrit filter for OpenStack reviews.
2015
First thoughts: Linux on the Supermicro 5028D-TN4T
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I’ve recently moved over to Rackspace’s OpenStack Private Cloud team and the role is full of some great challenges.
Understanding systemd’s predictable network device names
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I talked a bit about systemd’s network device name in my earlier post about systemd-networkd and bonding and I received some questions about how systemd rolls through the possible names of network devices to choose the final name.
Research Paper: Securing Linux Containers
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It seems like there’s a new way to run containers every week.
Book Review: Linux Kernel Development
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I picked up a copy of Robert Love’s book, Linux Kernel Development, earlier this year and I’ve worked my way through it over the past several weeks.
Tweetdeck’s Chrome notifications stopped working
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With the last few weeks, I noticed that Tweetdeck’s notifications weren’t showing up in Chrome any longer.
Run virsh and access libvirt as a regular user
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Libvirt is a handy way to manage containers and virtual machines on various systems. On most distributions, you can only access the libvirt daemon via the root user by default. I’d rather use a regular non-root user to access libvirt and limit that access via groups.
Share a wireless connection via ethernet in GNOME 3.14
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There are some situations where you want to do the opposite of creating a wireless hotspot and you want to share a wireless connection to an ethernet connection. For example, if you’re at a hotel that offers only WiFi internet access, you could share that connection to an ethernet switch and plug in more devices. Also, you could get online with your wireless connection and create a small NAT network to test a network device without mangling your home network.
Lessons learned from a kernel bisection
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I’m far from being a kernel developer, but I found myself staring down a [peculiar touchpad problem][2] with my new Dell XPS 13.
Using ZoneMinder with a Logitech C270 webcam
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For those of you in the market for a cheap webcam for videoconferencing or home surveillance, the Logitech C270 is hard to beat at about $20-25 USD.
Linux support for the Dell XPS 13 9343 (2015 model)
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I’M ALL DONE: I’m not working on Linux compatibility for the XPS 13 any longer.
2014
Try out LXC with an Ansible playbook
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The world of containers is constantly evolving lately.
Test Fedora 21 at Rackspace with Ansible
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Fedora 21 reached Alpha status last month and will reach beta status at the end of October.
Apache’s mod_proxy, mod_ssl, and BitTorrent Sync
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BitTorrent Sync allows you to keep files synchronized between multiple computers or mobile devices.
Switching to systemd on Debian jessie
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It seems like everyone is embracing systemd these days.
Helpful Linux I/O stack diagram
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During one of my regular trips to reddit, I stumbled upon an amazingly helpful Linux I/O stack diagram:
Docker, trusted builds, and Fedora 20
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Docker is a hot topic in the Linux world at the moment and I decided to try out the new trusted build process.
Installing Xen on Fedora 20
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I’ve written about installing Xen on Fedora 19 and earlier versions on this blog before.
Puppy Linux, icanhazip, and tin foil hats
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I figured that the Puppy Linux and icanhazip.
2013
Learn octal file permissions easily with stat
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My SANS classmates were learning how to set and recognize file permissions on a Linux server and we realized it would be helpful to display the octal value of the permissions next to the normal rwx display.