One of the cool things about Linux is that you can change the root directory to a mounted file system, and that is exactly what chroot does. I use it a lot in combination with my Linux VMs: I have a lot of them and updating them can be a long boring task. So why would you not automate this process?…
Bart Simons
So: you've got two or more clients and/or servers. They contain files that you want to have automatically synced when possible, because that would save a lot of time. Well, I got the solution for you: with a little bit of thinking in an innovative way I have found the solution that might bring you o…
Bart Simons
Imaging a live system disk, what a stupid idea, right? It actually is.. but hey, I was just looking for an alternative solution for an off-site backup of my servers: DD reading my disk bit by bit, while spitting out data through the pipeline to gzip which spits out data to OpenSSL through another pi…
Bart Simons
Need an easy solution to deploy the latest version of Node.js on Linux? This Bash script that I made does exactly that, and nothing more. There might be more elegant and better ways to deploy Node.js but I needed something lightweight and still as functional as solutions like nvm and n. The only thi…
Bart Simons