My use case is specific but not isolated. When I’m at work, I’m connected to my VPN at home. I have a specific DNS at home for my domain in deimos.lan and this is very useful to avoid me to remind all the IP of the services I have. Sometimes, I want to connect to a home service from the VPN, but my bookmarked links have my home DNS which are unknown from the DNS at work.

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Ubiquiti brings software that are easy to install on Windows and Mac OS. However as it is strongly recommended to let this software always up, it’s preferable to have a Linux version to run it in a container or a virtual machine. That’s why I decided to install it for a powerstrip mPower on Debian inside LXC. The documentation is very poor, that’s why I made this one for those who want to do like me.

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In previous posts, I was talking about brainfucks I had when migrating OpenBSD from a version to another. I really love OpenBSD but this fed me up a couple of years ago. That’s why I decided to test and switch to FreeBSD. Which one I forgot to upgrade since a while and I decided to do it to see if it’s the same nightmare I encountered on OpenBSD. I was surprised by the simplicity of the upgrade and how things happens without any issues.

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Seafile is a Google Drive replacement. If you missed m’y previous blog post on it, you can find it here. I really like Seafile even if a search feature is missing :-(. Seafile client is unfortunately not an available solution on all software proposing a cloud connection for sharing files. Hopefully an alternative exists using Webdav protocol. It is not activated by default on Seafile but can easily be enable. Here is how to do it.

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I recently switched my laptop from InitV to Systemd. And things didn’t happened as expected. That’s why I need to deep dive into Systemd issues and understand why it wasn’t working. I got problems like this: Failed to get D-Bus connection: No connection to service manager. And hopefully I found very good documentations on Internet (and especially on Arch wiki). I’ve made a summary on my wiki if you want to know how to diagnose a Systemd issue.

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Hello readers! The numbers of readers keeps growing and I really appreciate it :-). Thanks to all followers! You may know that I’m currently writing a book on MariaDB performances/high availability. I’m almost finish and this is the last run before the publication in September. To give the maximum in this book , in the very short delay I have to, I need more time. The current blog post flow is: one blog post every 2 days.

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Pierre Mavro / Deimosfr


Qovery Co-Founder and CTO

Paris - France