Lookat utf8 branch created

January 5, 2020 less than 1 minute read

I finally made some time work on utf8 support in Lookat (the most requested feature), it is still a work in progress… It’s available at:

• https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/lookat.git/log/?h=utf8

Have fun!

Switch from Libreboot to coreboot

October 17, 2019 11 minute read

I use(d) Libreboot on my Lenovo W500. And it works fine… but I want to install FreeBSD on it. The GRUB payload Libreboot uses by default isn’t compatible with the FreeBSD bootloader. It is possible to boot FreeBSD from GRUB or try to recompile Libreboot with the SeaBIOS payload. …But I just wanted to play with coreboot, to be honest :-)

Prepare

Migrate from octopress to jekyll

July 15, 2019 2 minute read

I migrated my blog from Octopress to Jekyll. The primary reason is that octopress isn’t maintained any more. I’m sure its great theme will live on in a lot of projects.

I like static webpage creators, they allow you to create nice websites without the need to have any code on the remote website. Anything that runs code has the possibility to be cracked, having a static website limit the attack vectors. You still need to protect the upload of the website and the system(s) that hosts your site of course.

OPNsense upgrade failed: Out of inodes

May 21, 2019 7 minute read

I use OPNsense as my firewall on a Pcengines Alix.

The primary reason is to have a firewall that will be always up-to-update, unlike most commercial customer grade firewalls that are only supported for a few years. Having a firewall that runs opensource software - it’s based on FreeBSD - also make it easier to review and to verify that there are no back doors.

When I tried to upgrade it to the latest release - 19.1.7 - the upgrade failed because the filesystem ran out of inodes. There is already a topic about this at the OPNsense forum and a fix available for the upcoming nano OPNsense images.

Building Your Own Docker Base Images (Part 3: Yum)

May 12, 2019 3 minute read

In my previous two posts (1, 2 ), we created Docker Debian and Arch-based images from scratch for the i386 architecture.

In this blog post - last one in this series - we’ll do the same for yum based distributions like CentOS and Fedora.

Building your own Docker base images isn’t difficult and let you trust your distribution Gpg signing keys instead of the docker hub. As explained in the first blog post. The mkimage scripts in the contrib directory of the Moby project git repository is a good place to start if you want to build own docker images.