Christophe Vanlancker - Carroarmato0

Christophe Vanlancker

Water meter in Home-Assistant

Water meter in Home-Assistant

How to monitor water usage with Home-Assistant in Belgium.

SAJ Solar Inverter and Home-Assistant

SAJ Solar Inverter and Home-Assistant

How I used an ESP32 and Max3232 board to read out the output from a SAJ solar inverter and integrated it in the Energy Dashboard of Home-Assistant.

Samba/CIFS volumes and Nomad

Samba/CIFS volumes and Nomad

How to mount Samba shares through Nomad volumes.

Testing USB drives with F3

Testing USB drives with F3

How to test USB flash drives for fraud with F3 on Linux

Override domain lookups for split-dns with NetworkManager

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Override domain lookups for split-dns with NetworkManager

How to override DNS search domains with Network Manager and maintain a Split-DNS setup.

Git tricks: managing different configs

Git tricks: managing different configs

How to manage different Git configuration files.

Can't import PGP key ArchLinux

Can't import PGP key ArchLinux

Fix updating issue with missing PGP key on ArchLinux

Exposing Podman containers fully on the network

Exposing Podman containers fully on the network

Exposing Podman containers fully on the network

Exposing multiport Docker containers with Traefik

Exposing multiport Docker containers with Traefik

Exposing containers with multiple ports through Traefik

Expose Traefik 2 Dashboard

Expose Traefik 2 Dashboard

Expose Traefik 2.x's dashboard

Network Profiles in Ubuntu

Network Profiles in Ubuntu

How to configure network profiles in Ubuntu.

Traefik Dashboard on its own URL

How to make the dashboard of Traefik publicly reachable as a URL.

Evaluating pfSense at a Lan Party

Evaluating pfSense at a Lan Party

Evaluating pfsense at a Lan party of 70 partecipants.

WireGuard

Trying out WireGuard and comparing to IPSec.

Open Source Lan Party Gateway - LOADays 2018

Open Source Lan Party Gateway - LOADays 2018

This presentation will cover the basics you need to build your own Lan Party gateway server as well as some tips and pitfalls using Open Source tools.

My favourite quotes from The Mythical Man-Month

My favourite quotes from The Mythical Man-Month

The Mythical Man-Month is an essay on Software Engineering and Project Management by Frederick Brooks based on his experiences at IBM while managing the development of OS/360. While he made mistakes he would later regret, seeing that many other managers fall through the same pittfals has led him to

List and test enabled OracleDB features using the commandline

List and test enabled OracleDB features using the commandline

While automating the deployment and configuration of Oracle 12c installations, I've had a need to be able to detect and automatically disable certain features which require extra licensing fees. Some of these extra features graciously enabled by default by Oracle are: * Real Application Testing (rat) * Partitioning (partitioning) * On-line

Updating CRL with Easy-RSA

Updating CRL with Easy-RSA

At work I've setup Client Side Certificate Authentication to protect a sensitive website for HR since the built-in authentication mechanism left more to be desired. I'm going to skip the part about how I've set it up, but the important part is that I

The R.A.T. 5 mouse and Linux

The R.A.T. 5 mouse and Linux

I recently purchased a R.A.T. 5 since my previous mouse had failed to help me when I was at a shortage of ammo and within an inch of my life playing Metro: Last Light, specifically, the left button would fail to make contact. Put aside the reason why

DNS in Ubuntu + LXC

I've been recently playing with LXC containers on a new Dedicated Server I'm going to migrate to shortly. While setting up LXC is a no brainer, and the containers are all able to resolve one another using dnsmasq (usually 10.0.3.1), the host system

Vint Cerf Lecture at UGent

Vint Cerf Lecture at UGent

I've had the pleasure of attending a talk with Vint Cerf, an American Computer Scientist recognized as one of the fathers of the Internet. My understanding is that he had been invited by UGent mainly to talk about Google's contribution to the literary world with its

LVM useful commands

LVM useful commands

At work I manage a good deal of virtual machines either through Xen or KVM. The VMs by default get 10GB of space assigned which gets partitioned in a regular boot partition and a secondary partition used as a Physical Volume. Additional Logical Volumes get created from the PV for