VirtualTam's bookmarks

181. Chaos Engineering - O'Reilly Media 2017-08-22

     tags: chaos, cloud-computing, distributed, infrastructure, linux, netflix, network, sysadmin

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     With so many interacting components, the number of things that can go wrong in a distributed system is enormous. You’ll never be able to prevent all possible failure modes, but you can identify many of the weaknesses in your system before they’re triggered by these events. This report introduces you to Chaos Engineering, a method of experimenting on infrastructure that lets you expose weaknesses before they become a real problem.

182. METASTUDIO: AN INTEGRATED MUSIC AND VIDEO PERFORMANCE SYSTEM FOR PURE DATA | Ed Kelly - Academia.edu 2017-08-20

     tags: audio, multimedia/pure-data, synthesis

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     • http://sharktracks.co.uk/html/software.html
183. Sshguard 2017-08-08

     tags: ban, linux, network/ssh, observability/logging, security, system

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184. My $169 development Chromebook 2017-07-28

     tags: cheap, internet/browser/chrome, laptop, linux, operating-system, privacy, security

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185. cabal install - Someone explain Haskell package management system - Stack Overflow 2017-07-21

     tags: cabal, package, programming/haskell, sandbox

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186. "Don't run this on any system you expect to be up" they said, but we did it anyway - Byte Blog 2017-07-20

     tags: chroot, hardware/ram, linux, linux/ubuntu, live, upgrade

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     • https://github.com/marcan/takeover.sh
     • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13622301
     • https://linux.die.net/man/8/debootstrap
     • https://linux.die.net/man/8/pivot_root
     • https://linux.die.net/man/2/pivot_root
187. Consul by HashiCorp 2017-06-21

     tags: cloud-computing, configuration-management/ansible, distributed-system/cluster, linux/container

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     • https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/consul_module.html
     • https://medium.com/@name_alari/cluster-provision-discovery-with-ansible-consul-377b473c934c
188. Using Net-SNMP and IPython 2017-05-31

     tags: network, network/snmp, observability, programming/python, resource, system

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189. syscalls(2) - Linux manual page 2017-05-30

     tags: glibc, linux, linux/kernel, programming/api, programming/c, system

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190. PEP 518 -- Specifying Minimum Build System Requirements for Python Projects | Python.org 2017-05-24

     tags: configuration, dependency, package, programming/python, programming/python/pip, programming/toml, setuptools

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     • https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/6cvbpo/pep_518_is_added_to_pip/
     • https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/4144
     • https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
191. NSIS Wiki | Nullsoft Scriptable Install System 2017-05-12

     tags: installer, microsoft/windows, package, setup

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     • http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Simple_tutorials
     • http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/

     Conditionals:

     • http://nsis.sourceforge.net/LogicLib
     • http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Examples/LogicLib.nsi
     • http://nsis.sourceforge.net/How_can_I_use_conditional_execution_%28If_..._EndIf_equivalent%29

     UI extensions:

     • http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Modern%20UI/Readme.html
     • http://ultramodernui.sourceforge.net/
     • https://github.com/SuperPat45/UltraModernUI
192. Python: What OS am I running on? - Stack Overflow 2017-05-11

     tags: apple/macos, linux, microsoft/windows, operating-system, programming/python, system

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193. mpg123, Fast MP3 Player for Linux and UNIX systems 2017-05-06

     tags: codec/mp3, linux, open-source

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     via https://fedoramagazine.org/full-mp3-support-coming-soon-to-fedora/

194. TrueSkill(TM): A Bayesian Skill Rating System - Microsoft Research 2017-05-05

     tags: algorithm, bayesian, game, microsoft, player, rank

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     • http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/trueskill-ranking-system/
     • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueSkill
195. Autotools - A Practitioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool (article series) 2017-04-27

     tags: autotools, build, linux, microsoft/windows, programming/c, programming/c++, system

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     Updated published book: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781593272067.do

196. The Meson® Build System 2017-04-25

     tags: build, linux, meson, microsoft/windows, programming/c, programming/c++, programming/python

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     https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson

     • https://in.waw.pl/~zbyszek/blog/systemd-meson.html
     • http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=systemd-Meson-Build-System
     • https://bloerg.net/2017/07/14/use-meson.html
197. Spacewalk: Free & Open Source Linux Systems Management 2017-04-25

     tags: linux, linux/red-hat, management, operating-system

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     • https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk
     • https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/satellite
198. Introduction to the Domain Name System (DNS) | Opensource.com 2017-04-11

     tags: guide, linux, network/dns

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199. SVN to Git | Atlassian Git Tutorial 2017-03-30

     tags: migration, source-code-management, source-code-management/git, source-code-management/subversion

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     • https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-and-Other-Systems-Git-as-a-Client
     • https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-and-Other-Systems-Migrating-to-Git
     • https://github.com/svn-all-fast-export/svn2git
     • https://github.com/ColinFinck/reactos-git-conversion-scripts
     • https://svn.reactos.org/project-tools/trunk/git-tools/
200. Scaling Git (and some back story) | Brian Harry's blog 2017-03-27

     tags: file, microsoft, source-code-management/git, system, virtual

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     • https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2017/02/03/announcing-gvfs-git-virtual-file-system/
     • https://github.com/Microsoft/gvfs
     • https://github.com/Microsoft/git