tiistai 23. syyskuuta 2014

tiistai 16. syyskuuta 2014

Launching Today: Mathematica Online!

So I started testing systemd on my home server...


Updated system, installed, was happy it worked out of the box... and then looked into monitoring:


http://bit.ly/XaFNtI


And suddenly I've got every service's CPU, mem and disk usage monitored every 10 seconds "for free".


A little bit of background: few months ago, when I was experimenting with cgroups and lxc I made a simple script to traverse cgroups and get statistics (cpu, mem, disk IO) and pipe it thru my monitoring system ( collectd -> riemann -> influxdb -> grafana ).


I was lukewarm about mandatory cgroups per service before ("meh, limiting is useful in 2 out 50 running services because most of them dont misbehave and package maintaners probably wont set them or set them wrong") but that is just awesome.


Now debugging any system slowness has become sooo much easier.



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In light of Microsoft buying out Mojang, here's MineTest, a FOSS remake of MineCraft written in C++

Borderlands 2 already shows up in Linux games list on Steam.

Terraria for Linux is finally in development!

sunnuntai 14. syyskuuta 2014

Running services in containers on a headless server


I've got a headless server running Archlinux which has worked reliably for many years. I'd like to start getting away from using aur packages for things like seafile and instead install them in their "native" environment (debian). I looked at docker but it seems that because it shares the OS kernel I'm locked to the host distro.


Would vagrant be a good candidate? I've only used it on my laptop so I'm not sure if virtualbox will work headless (even though vagrant uses it that way).


edit: got off my ass and looked at the docker docs and it seems it can do a different distro.



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tiistai 9. syyskuuta 2014

Reddit, what do we think of your country?


Post your country down below, and we'll tell you the boderline-offensive stereotypes and ideas we have about this country/people from it. Make sure to answer others too.



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maanantai 8. syyskuuta 2014

I made a music visualizer that runs in the browser using d3.js and the web audio api. It's also on github. Help me make it better!

Notepad++ replacement for programming?


I love Notepad++, specifically for Python scripting, and haven't come across anything in Linux that I like nearly as well. As a result, I often find myself with a Win7 VM side-by-side with my terminal, coding in N++ and running it in the bash shell.


There must be a better way. What Linux-native editors do you guys use, and what do you like about it? I'm open to GUI or CLI editors.



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sunnuntai 7. syyskuuta 2014

"Every Unix command eventually become an internet service. Grep->Google, rsync->Dropbox... etc"

What is your password management strategy?


To avoid writing my thesis, I started cleaning my computer. Now I arrived to the passwords step. I listed all the passwords that I need:



  • bios

  • hard drive encryption

  • root

  • user

    • firefox

      • ten or fifteen sites



    • thunderbird

      • two accounts



    • ssh key

    • gpg key

    • skype

    • the bank

    • irc

    • xmpp

    • etc.




So I have more than 20 passwords to memorize. For now, I rely on my brain to remember them. Ok I also use the password managers of firefox and thunderbird, but still, I have more than 10 passwords to remember!!


The perfect solution would be the one that make me remember only one password, but I don't think that it is possible (because of the bios and the hard drive).


So what is your overall strategy to minimize the number of passwords that you have to remember?



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Kaffeine's future

Find out how much Google and other tech companies pay their workers.

Finding Unanswered StackExchange Questions with SQL

The stigma of asking questions.

What was your biggest misconception about linux?


The first time I fiddled with ubuntu, i thought : "Oh my god, software center is so awesome and useful and I'll never need to learn any command prompt to install stuff"



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Wine 1.7.26 released (more dwrite work, file dialog and C runtime improvements)