Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/31
For my link archive: networking – Whitelist Windows Update Servers – Super User
Because there are brain dead routers that do not allow for wildcards, or whitelisting only a certain protocol for a URL, call windowsupdate.microsoft.com a URL, but then also accept http://www.windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/23
Reminder to self as I might need it one day:
Server-driven updates for native apps (Windows/Mac/iOS)
Via: [WayBack] How do you deploy and update desktop applications? Carl and Richard talk to Paul Betts about the open source project called Squirrel – https://github.c… – .NET Rocks! – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/22
Reminder to self to check out how this move went: [WayBack] Why and how GitLab abandoned Microsoft Azure for Google Cloud | VentureBeat.
Via [WayBack] Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/15
Cool tool: [WayBack] GitHub – gamelinux/passivedns: A network sniffer that logs all DNS server replies for use in a passive DNS setup via [WayBack] How to log all my DNS queries? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange (thanks mxmlnkn!).
It listens on port 53 for DNS requests then logs them to a file on regular intervals aggregating similar requests.
Usage is simple:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/08
Reminder to self: out of band access (some older Windows images need extra work; it works out of the box for Linux and more recent Windows images) [WayBack] Virtual Machine Serial Console access | Blog | Microsoft Azure.
Related: [WayBack] Azure virtual machine serial console | Microsoft Docs Bi-Directional serial console for Azure virtual machines (aka.ms/serialconsolehelp).
Via: [WayBack] Microsoft Serial Console: how to fix a ‘broken’ cloud – Open Source Insider
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/06/22
Cool: live container for some 20 minutes usage at [WayBack/Archive.is] Linux Containers – LXD – Try it online.
Via: [WayBack] New European Data Protection Law coming soon! Beginning with May, 25 you’re no longer allowed to host private data outside the EC, e.g. in the U.S. or … – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/29
For my research list: [WayBack] Getting rid of Docker plain text credentials – Hacker Noon
Repository at [WayBack] GitHub – docker/docker-credential-helpers
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/30
Want : [WayBack] My other computer is a data center Stickers and T-shirts — DevStickers
Via: [WayBack] Ich trage schon seit dem Studium schon keine Uhr mehr, weil ich meine Existenz vor NTP-fähigen Geräten zubringe, von denen die meisten nebenbei bemerkt … – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
Related: [WayBack] Urs Hölzle – Google+ My other computer is a data center
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/18
It sounds long ago, but this post is still so relevant for anyone not yet bringing operations and development close together. And for those who did:
[WayBack] Nick Craver – Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment – 2016 Edition
The relevance is why Nick repeated it in 2018 in a response to a @ThePracticalDev discussion right after the first Falcon Heavy deployment, and why I repeat it now.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/21
Still a very insightful read: [WayBack] Swap and Memory Pressure: How Developers think to how Operations people think – The Isoblog.
I totally agree with the view Kristian Köhntopp presents which I usually call “fail early, fail hard, fail clearly”.
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] Swap and Memory Pressure: How Developers think vs. how Operations people think. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
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