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👾 Technical notes and hybrid geekeries

  • Sun 17 January 2016
  • Cloud

Single node Ceph cluster on CentOS 7 with VirtualBox

If you work with cloud, you know that nowadays Ceph is the standard when you talk about distributed file systems. The only good alternative imho is GlusterFS, but today I wanna talk about installing a single node Ceph on CentoOS 7 using Virtualbox. This is for testing purposes only. I …

  • Sun 15 November 2015
  • Code

Ask for sudo password in graphical mode on MacOS X

I do lot of bash scripting under MacOS and usually, if I need administration privileges, I run sudo from my terminal. Anyway, sometimes you need to let non-technical users run these scripts and I'm sure that they wouldn't be happy to open terminal and run your script with sudo command …

WordPress development environment with Vagrant and Ansible

Some days ago I had the need of playing with a WordPress website on my local environment. There are many solutions out there to build your local WordPress environment, but I remembered an old project I've created some years ago. And yes, it's still working out of the box! I …

Switch on and off nsurlsessiond on Mac OS

If you use iCloud services, you may have noticed that sometimes your bandwidth is fully saturated by processes called nsurlsessiond or nsurlstorageid; these services take care of syncing your files, photos or contacts with iCloud. It happens that sometimes you can't count on large bandwidth and this is a bit …

Wildcard DNS with Dnsmasq on Mac OS X

A wildcard domain is a domain name that will match requests for non-existent sub-domain names. This is fairly simple with a registered domain name and consist of adding a dns record like *.example.com. For more info about setting up a wildcard public domain name, refer to your domain registrar …