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

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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

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Puppet on FreeBSD connecting to servers using a self-signed certificate.

Enable Debug For Shell Scripts

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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

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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 * […]

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 […]

Linux: Keep That Process Running

For whatever reasons a process can crash. The best is always to find out why and fix it. However, sometimes you can have higher priority tasks and you want that process to be running. With […]