Install Docker:

1. Create a docker container running Alma Linux 8.5:

At the same time mount the local directory $(pwd)/cache to /var/cache/dnf on the container. This will save us a lot of time re-downloading packages if something were to go wrong with the process.

docker run …

Install Docker:

1. Install Docker via the convenience script:

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | bash

2. Start the docker service:

systemctl start docker

3. Create a Docker container running Alma Linux 8.4 for testing:

docker run -dt --device /dev/fuse --cap-add SYS_ADMIN --name s3ql_test almalinux:latest bash

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Create a Docker Container:

For convenience, we'll build the RPM inside a CentOS 7 docker container.

1. Create the CentOS 7 container:

docker run -dt --name centos7 centos:7 bash

2. Enter the container:

docker exec -it centos7 bash

Install and configure CCache:

Since compiling can take a while and …

In this blog post I'll demonstrate how to create a JRuby fat jar that will include all gem dependencies inside of it. The dependencies themselves will be handled by Bundler.

1. Let's create a CentOS container to run our tests in:

docker run -dt --name=centos --hostname=centos --net=host …

The past few months I've really enjoyed contributing spare CPU cycles to the World Community Grid. Visit their website here.

1. Install epel-release:

yum -y install epel-release

2. Install the boinc-client and the boinc-manager:

yum -y install boinc-client boinc-manager

3. Enable the boinc-client so that it starts on boot/after …

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Recently I've been having some fun with B2's Backblaze platform - it's an S3 competitor which is a lot cheaper. I was very excited to try the service out but soon I realized there's not as many tools available to work with B2 unlike S3.

After some research I …

Consider the following scenario:

On my local desktop I am using docker to do some testing with a Mongo database. My router doesn't expose the Mongo port. A friend at work needs to access my awesome and suuuuper important data in Mongo but he's also behind a firewall.

In other …

I love trying out new tools - for this post I picked netcrypt. A netcat-like tool with encryption built in. What I love about it is that you don't need an SSL certificate or SSH to set this up - you just set a password before the file transfer and netcrypt takes …

You know that moment where you really want to compress something in a hurry and you don't want to really weigh the pros and cons of each utility out there? This is why I decided to take some time and perform some simple tests.

Disclaimer:

This test is for my …

This has given me trouble more than once so here are my notes for future reference:

1. Download git (Go uses git to download files)

yum -y install git

2. Download Go: (Get the latest version from here: https://golang.org/dl/)

cd /tmp
curl -LO https://dl.google.com …