Opensource

The Wordpress.com gouging is over. Since moving to a new house with business class internet and a new server rack with a High availability server/storage solution. Its a process…

Two years ago I began migrating looking at ways to use the Appleverse without Apple and extending collaborative features to Linux and open source. The solutions where technical and so “kludgy”. Time and need of the masses has now made this now near native and easy to implement.

dd has being my go to tool for “everything-imges-and-iso”, especially ever since the usb stick became ubiquitous and norm for installing new a OS. There is a new kid on the block now…but it needs a GUI.

Continuing on with my theme of compiling and patching linux kernels. Let’s look at the Ubuntu way that creates a .deb file for use with apt package manager. Git work flow thrown in for free.

As we have seen, the original/traditional/generic way to install new kernels or patch existing kernels is a relatively straight forward affair but requires manual management. Let’s use git to help

Each distribution has a preferred way which tends to result in a nice reusable packaged compatible to specific package management system. For this scenario I’ll focus on Fedora 27

Notes on overcoming certificate trusted peer certificate errors when importing and using s/mime for email signing on systems that use NSS instead of OpenSSL libraries

Notes on how to get any application that supports WebDAV or CardDAV to access apple iCloud resources. Following on from previous posts about using Apples iCloud services on non Apple devices or operating systems.

Exploring various storage clustering solutions as high available backend for virtual machine clusters. What is out there, what fits the needs, is it open source and how hard will it be to implement it.

Install and use the open source FFmpeg utility on macOS for high quality audio and video encoding and transcoding with support for x two AAC-LC encoders (aac & libfdk_aac) and one HE-AAC(v1/2) encoder (libfdk_aac).