Like a lot of techie people, I run a home server to centralize access to music, video’s, photos and other files. Because I have built my own server using a HP Proliant Microserver running Ubuntu, I need to do a bit more work myself in order to group my disks together in a redundant pool. This post will focus on how I’ve configured AUFS to expose my disks as a single volume and configured Snapraid to add redundancy and bitrot protection to the data. »
Last year docker added support for multiple logging drivers. This makes it very easy to integrate your docker containers with a centralized log management system in a transparent way. If you want to use the AWS Cloudwatch driver you will need to supply the docker daemon with access keys, which proved to be trickier than expected. Here’s how I managed to get it running. »
Starting with Ubuntu 15.04, Canonical replaced their own init system Upstart with the new Linux standard Systemd. Even though this is a big change on a technical level, it was entirely transparent for all packages in the official repositories. BubbleUPnP Server, a closed source third party application, was the only application I had any issues with. I’ll show you how you can make it work with systemd. »
There are a lot of ways to configure a server with multiple disks as a redundant network attached storage device. Most rely on RAID-like systems, but there are alternatives. In this post I compare a few of those systems and explain why I chose to use AUFS combined with snapraid. »
Through the Github Atom editor, I recently discovered the Monokai colour theme. This theme was originally created for the TextMate editor and then converted to Atom. Because I find it quite pleasing to look at for long periods of time, I decided to give my terminal a similar look. »
Even though the official line is that the open source AMD radeon drivers are not supported for Grim Fandango, you can get them to work very easily. »
Because I have a mix of GUI and CLI systems, I configure all my machines through the command line. For networking this means I edit the /etc/network/interfaces file. Most of the time, this works just fine, except that after upgrading to the newest Ubuntu release on my laptop, all of a sudden my wireless network wouldn’t come up at boot. In a previous version of this post, I wrongly suggested that removing network-manager would solve the issue. »