Looking into Dell R420, what can I use this for?

2023-11-13 12:11:03 - No Comments

I aquired a Dell R420 which will not fit in my rack at all but I guess now that I have it I need to do something with it. There is quite some power in it but not efficient power.

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Ceph maintainance – Monitor IP change, massive deletions, cache tier remove

2023-11-07 12:11:02 - No Comments

I talk about some maintainance I had to do recently where we switched the public network of our monitors, removed the cache tier and remove massive amount of objects and all the problems we encountered and handled.

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Put my Llama into pieces, this is my last resort…

2023-10-25 11:10:02 - No Comments

We look into pieces and what features currently are available. Is it a tool for your development workflow or is it to early to use/know.

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This is the year of the Linux desktop…

2023-10-16 09:10:02 - No Comments

I switched to Linux this year and have been running it for almost a year. In this video we look into DistroSea which is a site for trying out different distros before you take the plunge into the world of Linux. I review the package managers, GUI elements and overall usefulness.

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Expire objects in an S3 storage (Ceph Rados Gateway)

2023-10-09 11:10:03 - No Comments

In this video looks into how to expire objects from object storage and also move them to another storage class using rules and scheduled jobs inside the rados gateway program.

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Azure Blob Storage is totally different from S3 or is it?

2023-10-02 11:10:03 - No Comments

In this video I go through a minimal client storing data in Azure Blob Storage. Talking about the differences with S3 and what to look out for and challenges to get it working.

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The Complete Guide to ETCD Cluster Setup

2023-09-11 11:09:03 - No Comments

In this video, I will teach you how to store data with ETCD, set up an ETCD cluster, and recover from a disaster.

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Galera Cluster Tutorial: Building a Highly Available Database System

2023-09-04 11:09:03 - No Comments

In this video, we look into the database library Galera for MySQL or MariaDB. It enables replication over multiple hosts where each host is a master and replicated to the other hosts so it’s eventually consistent.

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Writing a Notes App in Pure HTML: Harnessing the Power of htmx

2023-08-28 11:08:03 - No Comments

In this video I look into htmx and the workflow to write a simple notes application with a simple backend API. htmx is a really cool way to write code in pure HTML and just add one small javascript library to get an reactive page.

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Java Applications Meet Native Libraries: Testing Preview Features with Custom Code

2023-08-22 11:08:02 - No Comments

In this video we look into the new preview features for connecting java applications to native libraries and run functions. We test both running against libraries loaded in the system and we also load a custom library we built from C code.

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Creating Custom Object Detection Models with Ultralytics Yolo

2023-08-15 11:08:03 - No Comments

In this video, we look into the Ultralytics Yolo framework. It enables you to run a pre-trained Yolo algorithm and retrain it for your particular use case. Using this model, you could easily create a new model to detect your favorite things in an image and create location boxes over the objects.

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Looki Looki No Hands, Automatic install of Ubuntu server.

2023-08-07 11:08:02 - 6 Comments

Looki Looki No Hands, Automatic install of Ubuntu server. Extracting all the files from the original ISO mkdir source-files xorriso -osirrox on -indev ubuntu-22.04.2-live-server-amd64.iso –extract_boot_images source-files/bootpart -extract / source-files Edit the boot menu menuentry "Autoinstall Ubuntu Server" { set gfxpayload=keep linux /casper/vmlinuz quiet autoinstall ds=nocloud\;s=/cdrom/nocloud/ — initrd /casper/initrd } Repack the ISO from the files […]

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