Here is a simple script to backup your Linux/FreeBSD server or your macOS on storage.rcs-rds.ro. I’m not associated with Digi Storage, I just know they have many users who can find this useful. As always, […]
Duplicity on Digi Storage
Category: tech
Plex Migration
Probably the easiest way to deploy Plex is using their docker image. Such an instance is also easy to migrate, this is what I recently did. Stop the container, atchive the directory containing the volume(s) […]
netcat – The Mighty One
Once in awhile sshd will break on your server, maybe after an update and you need to send long lines, maybe a cipher list from one server to another. Typing on console it’s an option […]
Puppet, FreeBSD & Self-Signed SSL
aws meta-data
This is mostly a reminder for myself that http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/ on a aws ec2 is really cool because you get get all sort of information with it.
Enable Debug For Shell Scripts
Debugging shell scripts comes handy, especially when unexpected things happen. Trust me, they do. I use two different approaches, based on what’s needed: debug while running it or when ran in the background, maybe by […]
Easily Combine Images On a Mac
Install imagemagick (from MacPorts or Homebrew): port install imagemagick or brew install imagemagick convert +append source_image1.jpg source_image2.jpg source_image2.jpg combined.jpg Voilà! You can combine multiple images not just three. You can also do convert +append * […]
duplicity oauthlib.oauth2.rfc6749.errors.InvalidGrantError
If you are having below error in duplicity probably your token has expired and you need to generate a new one. To generate a new one simply run duplicity and follow the steps, you are […]
Failed To Create Java Virtual Machine – macOS
If you are using macOS and Apache Directory studio there is a chance you’ve met this error message: Below fix should work in most cases. Find out where is your jdk directory then update Info.plist […]
Comparing Ansible and CFEngine
Once in awhile I hear (since the pandemic mostly see on chat) people comparing Ansible and CFengine: this is better, that is better. etc. I use both and like both, I think both have their […]