Posted on zo 18 juni 2017 in desktop • Tagged with debian, hardware
With Debian officially realising Debian 9.0 aka Stretch, it was time to move my native Linux machine to the latest and greatest. In an update to this post I will report how it turned out for me ??
BTW : turned out great!
Posted on zo 16 april 2017 in webapps • Tagged with fediverse
As of today I run a mastodon instance, targeting Dutch speakers, although everyone could sign up if they want to.
The instance can be found at https://olifantje.net (olifantje is small elephant in Dutch).
Feel free to sign up or to sign up at another mastodon instance and follow …
Posted on za 08 april 2017 in services • Tagged with backups
This is just a short note on my experiences running backups with Duplicity.
Duplicity is an open source package that allows you to do incremental backups, complete with proper indexing, to remote storage. This can be a modern ‘cloud’ storage like S3, but I prefer to run it over a …
Posted on zo 05 maart 2017 in webapps • Tagged with fediverse
Fiddling around with open source / free alternatives for social networking has reconfirmed the one major problem with open source : there are so many forks to choose from.
To help someone choose a linux distro to run will end op in a short questionnaire about the needs of the person asking …
Posted on zo 26 februari 2017 in software • Tagged with puppet
This week I wrapped up version 0.3.0 of the ispprotect puppet module I created for the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The module manages the installation and scheduling of ISPProtect, a php malware scanner that also scans for outdated versions of popular PHP applications. The module can be found at …