Intel AMT on Linux for remote control/fencing

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. ...

May 1, 2015 · 4 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

Migrate SPIP-RSS post feed to HTML

I had my old blog based on SPIP, and I wanted to keep all the posts together, to make it easier to migrate in the future. Initially, I migrated my posts from blogger, where there’s an option to export the contents and some plugins to allow easier importing to markdown files (to be used by OctoPress), those were the recent posts, so part of the job was already done there. Next step, was to migrate old posts on my SPIP site. ...

April 1, 2015 · 2 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

Install RHEL7/Centos/Fedora on a software raid device

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).. ...

March 28, 2015 · 4 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

OctoPress for Jekyll blogging

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. ...

March 24, 2015 · 2 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

Podcasts with flexget and transmission

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: ...

March 16, 2015 · 1 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez
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