Written by Philipp on 2014-03-28
Creating encrypted Volumes on ZFS Pools
Hacking . ZFSOne of the most anticipated Features of ZFS is transparent Encryption. But since Oracle decided to do not make updates from Solaris 11 availible as Open Source, the Feature of on-Disk Encryption is not availible on Illumos (e.g. Open-Source) based Distributions. But there are some ways to create transparent encrypted ZPools with current avaiblibe ZFS
Written by Philipp on 2014-02-09
Managing Mac OS Software with Munki and Subversion
Mac . TechAt the Lisa ’13, some folks from Google did a talk how they managing all their Desktop (and Server?) Macs at Google. Besides obvious things (like using Puppet), they mentioned another Tool, Munki, for rolling out Software and Software Updates to different Clients. Since i am using several Mac Machines (Laptop, Workstation and some VMs)
Written by Philipp on 2013-09-09
Plotting UNIX Processes with D3
Graphics . JavascriptI created another Plot, using D3js: You can find all Scripts here. I am still have to figure out how to do graph updates and add label to the nodes.
Written by Philipp on 2013-09-03
Plotting UNIX Processes with DOT
Graphics . Javascript . ToolingInspired by this Post this post, I started playing around with ps, nodejs and GraphViz. After reading some ps man Pages, i found the necessary ps parameters. For MacOS i used ps -A -c -o pid,ppid,pcpu,comm,uid -r For Linux i used ps -A -o pid,ppid,pcpu,comm,uid You then get some Output like: PID PPID %CPU COMMAND
Written by Philipp on 2013-08-04
Build and Test Project TOX under MacOS
Build . Hacking . Network . ToolingSome Steps to do You need to have XCode with installed CLI Tools (see here) If you are using MacPorts (you really should), you need to install all necessary Dependencies: port install libtool automake autoconf libconfig-hr libsodium cmake Checkout the Project TOX Core Repository: git clone –recursive https://github.com/irungentoo/ProjectTox-Core.git cd ProjectTox-Core cmake . make all You
Written by Philipp on 2013-08-01
Downgrading Subversion from 1.8 to 1.7 in MacPorts
Snippets . Toolingbash-3.2# cd /tmp bash-3.2# svn co http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/devel/subversion –revision 108493 A subversion/files A subversion/files/patch-Makefile.in.diff A subversion/files/patch-osx_unicode_precomp.diff A subversion/files/config_impl.h.patch A subversion/files/servers.default A subversion/Portfile Ausgecheckt, Revision 108493. bash-3.2# cd subversion/ bash-3.2# port install —> Computing dependencies for subversion —> Fetching archive for subversion —> Attempting to fetch subversion-1.7.10_1.darwin_12.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/subversion —> Attempting to fetch subversion-1.7.10_1.darwin_12.x86_64.tbz2.rmd160 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/subversion …
Written by Philipp on 2013-07-31
Creating a SmartOS Dataset for Windows Server 2012 r2
SmartOS . VirtualisierungI postet about SmartOS almost 1 1/2 Year ago. Since i am still using SmartOS here and then for primary testing purpose, i decided to create a new Post about how to make your own Datasets, to make several VMs based on the same Image possible. As Microsoft also introduces their latest Server OS (Windows
Written by Philipp on 2013-07-28
Adding LDAP Authentication to a Play! 2 Application
Hacking . Java . Play! Framework . ToolingAs of Play! 1 is not really supported anymore, i will describe the steps for accessing Data from your LDAP Directory with your Play! 2 with this Post. Prerequisites As also mentioned in my last Post, for this example we are using the Vagrant vagrant-rundeck-ldap VM, I already mentioned here. Setup After you setup a
Written by Philipp on 2013-07-28
Adding LDAP Authentication to a Play! 1 Application
Hacking . Play! Framework . ToolingYou will often find yourself in a situation where you need a public and a private (normally some Administration) Area in your application. This Post is about how easy you can access User Data stored in you companies LDAP Directory with a public availible Library in a Play! 1 Application. I will also give you
Written by Philipp on 2013-07-27
IMHO: Differences between a mobile Web-Page and a mobile Web-Application
Hacking . UIAbout Since i did some Web-Development for Mobile Device for my last projects, i would like to cover some of my thoughts and expierences i had during these months. To come straight to the point, it is not really easy to develop stuff for mobile Devices these days, exspecially if you want to support older