MySecureShell finally available in official Debian repository

28 October 2014 in Debian, Hi-Tech, Linux

You may know that I’m one of the 2 founders of MySecureShell. Around 6 years ago, we made a quick try to send MySecureShell to Debian and didn’t make enough efforts to make it possible. This time I worked hard to make this happen. Thanks a lot to Gonéri Le bouder, a colleague and Debian dev to make it possible and helped me to do it fast, before Jessie freeze.

Finally: switching back to iOS (from Android)

26 October 2014 in Android, Hi-Tech, iPhone

In previous posts, I talked about why I switched from iOS to Android. After 1 year and a half, after 3 different Android phones (Nexus 4, Nexus 5 and Samsung Galaxy S5), I’m finally going to switch back to iOS. For several reasons in facts but the major ones are those: Application quality lower than on iOS Lower global stability on Samsung Touchwizz and Cyanogen I was pretty happy with Google Stock ROM, however it’s not available on all devices and the Nexus do not have the better hardware (not talking about Nexus 6).

Yosemite and Refind: recover your Linux boot

22 October 2014 in Debian, Hi-Tech, Linux, Mac, Red Hat

You may upgrade your Mac OS X version to Yosemite (10.10) and saw you dual boot with Linux not working anymore :-(. That’s because Apple made changes and Refind is not yet ready for it. So here is the solution to get your dual boot half back. It won’t fully work as expected, but you’ll be able to boot to Linux with Refind and Mac OS X with the alt key.

UP24: my first connected strap

18 October 2014 in Hi-Tech, Private life

I recently had a gift, this is a connected strap, the Jawbone UP24 model. It doesn’t do a lot of things, but what it does works well. I wanted one with a good autonomy. And a recent firmware update grew from 7 days to 14 the number of days the battery autonomy. I also wanted a strap able to give me information on night I’ve spent, doesn’t let me sleep all the afternoon during a siesta.

Tig: browse your Git repositories in curses

16 October 2014 in Debian, Hi-Tech, Linux, Red Hat

A colleague talked to me about this tool this week and I felt in love. It helps to easily navigate into your git repository. You can have a look on last log and directly in the same interface the diff of the current commit. I’ve attached one screenshot to let you see how cool it is. The are also a lot of other features but just for browsing purpose. You can’t update or make changes.

Fig: use docker to create a containers’ stack

14 October 2014 in Debian, Docker, Hi-Tech, Linux, Red Hat

Fig is a fast, isolated development environments using Docker. For some features, it can be compared to Vagrant where the Dockerfike is not enough powerful to build multiple instances. For example, let’s say you want to test a new product version of a software like MediaWiki and you want to build the complete stack. So you may need to have several tools categories (depending of the usage): Web: Nginx, PHP-FPM, Varnish App Cahing: Redis Search: ElasticSearch In Vagrant you can natively build 3 VM and interconnect them without the need of additional tool.

Aptly: swiss army knife for Debian repository management

12 October 2014 in Debian, Hi-Tech, Linux

I recently discover Aptly which permit to manage local Debian repositories. I waited this kind of tools during several years and now I’m really happy. It is able to manage several repositories, making snapshots, merging snapshots, diff between 2 snapshots, filtering packages to avoid downloading unwanted ones…. This is perfect when you want to test before upgrading a critical infrastructure.