How to stake on NYM Validator 🐳🐳🐳

As said in the article about mixnodes and validators, NYM is a technology aiming for providing privacy for the communications. Once you get some tokens, PUNK at this time, you can use the web wallet to check the balance of your account and delegate it to mixnodes or gateways… but, using the binaries, you can additionally delegate to validators. For doing this, we first need the nymd binary on our system to follow the procedure for compiling it from the documentation for validators, but skip the remaining parts https://nymtech.net/docs/run-nym-nodes/validators/. ...

September 28, 2021 · 3 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

The experience of writing a book

I wanted to write about my experience (before I forget about it), and as some colleagues asked about it… here we go… As published in the blog entry RHEL8 Administration book, some colleagues and I wrote a book on RHEL8 administration, which can be bought here. Many years ago I started one about Linux, but every time a new paragraph was added, a lot of new ‘TO-DO’ items were appended as the information growth… and as it was a ‘solo’ project, I had other stuff to work on and was parked. ...

September 15, 2021 · 5 min · iranzo

[Book] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration

After some time working on it (about 6 months for the main work and some more time for the reviews) with my colleagues Miguel and Scott, we’ve finally made it thanks to the support from our families and Packt, as well as several members of RH teams that gave the clearance to get it out! The book targets users willing to learn skills to administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux or compatible systems. It is a hands-on guide to the administration and can be used as reference thanks to the real-life examples provided along the text. ...

September 11, 2021 · 1 min · iranzo

Geo replication with syncthing

Some years ago I started using geo replication to keep a copy of all the pictures, docs, etc After being using BitTorrent sync and later resilio sync (even if I didn’t fully liked the idea of it being not open source), I gave up. My NAS with 16 GB of ram, even if a bit older (HP N54L), seemed not to have enough memory to run it, and was constantly swapping. ...

June 12, 2021 · 3 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

How to check if a system is virtual

I was improving a playbook in Ansible and wanted to find a way to find if a system was virtual or not to decide about some tunning like setting tuned-adm profile virtual-guest or disable the power off when the lid is closed. After some research and try-except situations I got to this one that seemed to work (I had to tune it as one desktop machine was missing the /sys entry I was using before): ...

May 10, 2021 · 3 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez
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