This is a small example of using C libraries in Go. Go is relatively young in the world of programming languages, and although it’s very popular and has many available modules, there’s occasionally a need to interface with a pre-existing C library. I came across this need when attempting some video manipulation on my GoPro videos. To be honest, this probably would have been easier to write in Python, but I am learning Go, so I attempted it in Go. I rapidly found myself down a rabbit hole where the bindings I chose for FFmpeg in Go weren’t 100% implemented (or I just didn’t know what I was doing!), so it was time for some learning.
For a bunch of internal projects I wanted to have proper ssl running that didn’t cause errors with self signed certificates and other invalid ssl issues. To manage this without the overhead of running some full CA software such as EJBCA or Dogtag I decided to do it with the tools that were already available on almost every Linux system. This was originally written several years ago in a text file on the USB sticks where I stored the CA offline but the documentation might be useful to other people. Most of this comes from https://jamielinux.com/docs/openssl-certificate-authority/ with a bit from a few other places.
The following is a quickstart for running Flask on Spark.
Most of the example tutorials I have found are for running a bunch of spark jobs on a spark cluster and returning a result. I was interested in long-running tasks and seeing if I could build a web app that ran on Spark. I thought it would be possible but I didn’t think it would be this easy. Please note that this same procedure will work for lots of python scripts, and I am interested to see what else I can load into Spark.
About a year ago I gave in to my materialistic desires and bought a GoPro Black. It is NOT the cheapest action cam on the market but I kept thinking that if this thing was to record my memories then I wanted them the best they possibly could be. This is one of those purchases that I immediately had buyer’s remorse for since it is an action cam and those that know me will also know I don’t lead the most action-packed life in the world. Nothing has made this more obvious to me than ending up 10 months later and the only things I had used it for was taking fisheye photos of my back garden and filming my feet accidentally.
In the course of testing our puppet manifests with beaker I came across the necessity to run KVM virtual machines inside KVM guests. Normally this has a severe performance penalty as the CPUs need to be fully emulated and cannot take advantage of performance enhancing CPU instructions. Several years ago Intel and AMD added functionality which basically enables CPU instruction passthrough to the guests to get around this limitation. You can see these extensions on a host CPU in /proc/cpuinfo
howto fix an incorrect checksum on an OpenLDAP ldif file
Basic script to create qcow2 backed kvm domains based on a golden domain. Your golden domain must be using qcow2
To install the dependencies on fedora 19 run the following:
yum install libvirt-client qemu-img libguestfs-tools xmlstarlet libxml2 The virt-sysprep tool can do much more than this and I could potentially set the hostname and configure the machine to run some scripts when it starts up to check in with puppet which I may do in the future.
Posting this literally so I don’t forget it.
/etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf
NameVirtualHost * include conf.d/vhosts.d/*.conf mkdir /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.d /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.conf
NameVirtualHost * include conf.d/vhosts.d/*.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/default.conf
<VirtualHost _default_:*> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/default/html/ ServerName localhost <VirtualHost> /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhosts.d/www.example.com.conf
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.example.com ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/www.example.com/html RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} !=503 RewriteRule .* - [R=503,L] ErrorDocument 503 /index.html Header always set Retry-After "60" <VirtualHost>
After a few false starts (Anaconda’s disk configuration is still a mess and very unintuitive) I managed to install the latest and greatest Fedora 19 on my home machine. I like the new introduction and things are looking good. I have noticed a few new things in Settings which are good a welcome sight for people that like a little bit of choice. Things such as per application notification settings, media sharing, privacy settings and configuration for what appears in the applications search are all new. Also is the inclusion of new choices in the Gnome Online Accounts dialogue such as OwnCloud which is something I am looking at to help me break out of my total reliance on Google for all my information applications. All in all the release is nice and I thank and congratulate all the effort people have put in to create this latest release.
I have finally decided to learn all this stuff about Test Driven Design (TDD). I have a few projects that I go back to every now and then and it would be nice to be able to start hacking away without needing to remember every bit of the project. After looking around and investigating several other Continuous Integration systems I have ended up on Jenkins with ShiningPanda plugin. The development team where I work uses Jenkins and it is reasonably easy to set up but I was initially against it because the machine I have to run it on is fairly low spec. It turns out it isn’t too much of a resource hog for a JVM based application (only 20% of my memory and 10% constant CPU usage).
