Short intro In bare-metal installations... When you create your cluster, you wanted to have two Control Planes so you would have continuity when restarting one of the control planes, or even having one of them off for some period of time would not affect the cluster as a whole. In theory this... more...

Yes, SomaFM Rulez people! But then its quite annoying to use their interface, at least for me. Using Linux everyday and everywhere, there are better ways to listen to them. So I have created one "SomaFM Tuner" where I can click some buttons, change stations and automatically make it play on... more...

Prepare environment # pacman -S libvirt virt-install qemu ebtables dnsmasq firewalld bridge-utils Start firewall services. Note that "start" only will start the service at this time, but not at boot time, for that use "enable" # systemctl start firewalld And then start libvirt so you can sta... more...

Zabbix is Fantastic, let me start like that. But nothing is this world is perfect. Although the universe is made out of imperfections, Open Source software allow us to carve a bit more on that turkey. Here's a bit of my problems and what I did to fix them. Make sure to use the sentia-custom-... more...

This is an entry to explain in quite some detail, but very objectively, how to configure a PFSense box to make Internet and IPTV available at home, without the use of the Experia box sent by KPN (Netherlands). Normally when you hire the service from KPN, they will send a fiber endpoint, one set-... more...

While preparing my installation of our version of the Magic Mirror, I felt like missing a module for informing me the moon phase. As an amateur astronomer, I generally have a look on the moon phase to be aware if this is a good night to observe, maybe the moon or maybe other things. Have this in... more...

Following the idea of making the Magic Mirror a useful tool for the daily technological communication, this module will satisfy also the most common of the senses. We cook at home pretty much everyday, my wife mostly -- that must be said -- , and we keep struggling to find those innovative ideas t... more...

I have spent some time creating an image to OpenStack based on ArchLinux. You can download my image following this link or just here Just "save as" somewhere -- the extension/type is QCOW2, or copy+paste the link on your image creation screen to let OpenStack grab the file for ya. This is a... more...

Notice this is probably not up to date, look at info on the RDO project to figure out the right stuff ;-) So I am running Openstack at home, my installation is based on: The RDO Project Which is basically a CentOS installation and their scripts will make all the work. yum install openstack-p... more...

Oh Yes, I have a real server. And lots of Noise. For me, the more incredible it might be, I managed to get from the company I am working now, an used Power Edge R610 , which has ran out of warranty and instead of getting a more expensive maintenance continuation, they bought new servers and the ol... more...