Hi, Some time ago, and after discussing with a colleague, I had a look on Intel’s AMT, and this week I did a demo for another colleague as a cheap-replacement for having power fencing capabilities on commodity hardware. AMT provides a server-like Out of band management like iLO, iDRAC, RSB etc and it’s included in i3 with vPro processors/chipsets of some equipment. I did the test on a Lenovo X200/201 system I had as old laptop. ...
Installing Linux on a RAID has lot of advantages, from using RAID1 to enjoy protection against drive failures or RAID0 to combine the size of several drives to create bigger space for files with all the smaller disks we have. There are several RAID level definitions and may have different uses depending on our needs and hardware availability. For this, I focused on using raid1 for the system disks (for greater redundancy/protection against failures) and raid0 (for combining several disks to make bigger space available for non important data).. ...
After testing for some days Jekyll and github.io for blog posting, I was missing some features of other CMS, so I started doing some search on how to automate many other topics while keeping simplicity on blog posting. OctoPress Makes this extra step so you can still focus on your contents and of course have a nice template as starting point with integrations for some social plugins, etc. Setup is well done if you follow the provided steps, without jumping anything, in my case, I moved my old pages (plain jekyll + poole) to OctoPress. ...
Some podcasts are available via RSS feeds, so you can get notified of new episodes, so the best way I’ve found so far to automate this procedure is to use the utility flexget. Flexget can download a RSS feed and get the .torrent files associated to them and store locally, which makes a perfect fit for later using Transmission’s watch folder, to automatically add them to your download queue. In order to do so, install flexget either via pip (pip install flexget) or using a package for your distribution and create a configuration file similar to this: ...
A few days ago, I was checking a friend’s system for backing up. It was based on rsync at the Linux side and rsync server on a windows machine he uses for storing information generated by other software. The solution with rsync worked pretty well for him until he started to put several strange characters in filenames which rendered the backup unusable to certain point. After being asked for alternative backup software that was available on several platforms, I’ve ended testing duplicity. ...