A few months ago we moved into a brand new office which was furnished with a dozen of samsung displays. Unfortunately the basic player included in those displays isn't capable to add a webpage/url as content. Since we've setted up a smashing instance to create dashboards for each team this was a huge bummer.

While looking for a stable solution many teams brought their own raspberry pi's, chromecasts, airtame devices to at least be able to show something on the displays in the meanwhile.

Since we already had good experiences with an intel compute stick and an intel NUC …

I got some issues with my wired connection lately that the speed wasn't negotiated correctly and it felt back to 10Mb/s as default.

Did some troubleshooting by eliminating various network devices, restarting them but the results didn't satisfy. Being completely random when and when not auto negotiated.

Before becoming insane I decided to update the bios of my machine (being a lenovo T460s).

I did this already in the past and talked about it even on one of our monthly last Friday's at work. So I was quite sure I had something written about it for future reference but …

A few months ago I implemented an RDO based openstack kilo release private cloud at one of our customers for their development platform. Through time we tackled a couple of issues so the cloud could be fitted into their work flows.

We stumbled onto some minor issues and some major ones. Let's begin with the minor ones ;)

When upgrading the all-in-one controller before we started using the cloud in 'production' a mean bug bit us in the ankle due to a new hiera package. After some digging around a patch came to the rescue together with the exclusion of the …

In this article I'll try to describe how I use vagrant in my daily tasks as an operations dude as well as I deployed it at one of our customers to help the developers focusing on the coding part rather than the operations part.

Vagrant

Since the beginning of my career at inuits I'm using vagrant almost everyday. If I got payed every time I spin up a box I could have bought that tesla already some years ago! But unfortunately I'm not :)

For almost 99% of the use cases I use this nifty tool it's related to puppet. Writing …

To make the process of connecting to our local wifi at home a bit less complex I decided to create a qr code for it. That way people can easily use their camera of their smartphone to connect to our network without typing in the WPA key.

So I looked on the net for a qr generator and started by typing in our SSID, when realizing it can't be secure to fill in our wpa key too.. It may be a bit paranoia but well I don't trust anything on the interweb most of the time.

Doing some further research …

Nowadays it becomes more and more relevant knowing which version of a package is installed and having an overview of the packages infected by some bugs or security holes. That way you could see which servers are possibly vulnerable for those on the dark side.

That's where pakiti comes in a clean web based overview of your servers listing all packages vulnerable against the CVE in particular.

It's a client server setup where the client reports the version of the packages to the pakiti server. The server on his turn checks those versions against CVE to see if there are …

To make our and other lives less painful writing documentation is a good start to decrease the level of frustration when working on a shared project.

It's a common feeling writing documentation isn't something we are all waiting for to do. In an effort to make it easier for all of us an automatically way of deployment can be managed by our good friend jenkins in combination with docker.

The details about this flow is been described on this page. After reading through this documentation section you should be aware of the general deployment idea so you can implement it …

I got a great opportunity by attending LinuxCon in Edinburgh.

Will try to share my experiences there in this blogpost by listing the topics and people I found interesting so perhaps others could take also advantage of it.

Since I discovered the joy of using the ratpoison window manager I'm trying to do all tasks I need to perform on my system using the command line.

One of those frequently used tasks is printing out documents or scanning in files. Until today I used the software viewer of my documents to print and simple-scan to scan my files.

Nowadays I use the command line to perform those tasks. To print out documents I use the lp command:

"Get the status off all printers on your system"
$ lpc status all

"Print the desired file to a specific printer"
$ lpr …

During this time of the year in Belgium most people needs to fill in their taxes forms.

Since a few years the Belgium government provided an electronic way to accomplish this task. Using a digital passport you can authenticate yourself.

I wanted to use this nice tool so I had to configure my local setup to have it all glued together on my linux machine.

The necessary steps I described in this post so other interested people can use their linux setups also to fill in the tax forms.

Installation

The mayor package to install on a fedora machine is …