Haproxy Early Hints

2019-02-12

One of the new features added to HAProxy 1.9 is Early Hints. …more

Haproxy Cloud Native Logging

2019-02-11

Recently, HAProxy 1.9 was released to the public. One of the enhancements this release has had, is to the way it logs: HAProxy is now able to log to stdout and stderr. Logging to stdout or stderr is important for container environments, like Docker. …more

Stopping media autoplay in Firefox

2019-01-21

Media sites have found a new way to annoy me when browsing their websites: Automatically playing videos without my consent. Relevant to the article or no, for me, this is right up there with blinking or moving ads on the Eelco Scale of Annoyance. …more

Stop trying to make it happen...

2018-09-12

A new chapter in the browser wars. …more

Notes: Preparing for RHCSA & RHCE 1

2018-05-11

Partitioning Supported tools: MBR disks: fdisk GPT disks: gdisk To force the Red Hat installer to use GPT, add inst.gpt to the kernel commandline. Don’t convert MBR partitions of a boot-disk to GPT, grub2 will fail to locate stage2 of the boot image. KB: base-10 (1000x1000) KiB: base-2 (1024x1024) fdisk fdisk saves partition info in MBR => first 512 bytes of disk gdisk GUID disk identifier gdisk saves partition metadata in first MB and a backup in last MB 128 possible partition entries Shows 2048 sector boundaries => optimal 1MiB rounding for optimal performance Update kernel partition info partprobe partition size adjustments: reboot