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Setup a USB-C Alt Mode dock on linux

Introduction I've recently bought an ASUS Zephyrus M to replace my ZenBook Pro as laptop & my Z820 in the second room, so the idea is to use a docking to instantly connect my screens/keyboard/mouse/lan, i choosed the Kensington SD4500. The SD4500 is working great

linux

PC Build "Sinon" : The best work/gaming rig

PCI Passthrough -> The real gaming on linux

pfsense

ipmtool & iDRAC on pfsense

If you have a iDRAC (or another remote management card) on a server running pfsense, maybe you'll install the package ipmitool. Once the package is installed maybe you'll get an error when using the ipmitool command. [2.3.3-RELEASE][root@fw.makz.me]/root: ipmitool Could

archlinux

Archlinux AUR makepkg unknown PGP public key

Trust all the keys !

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Pacman / Yaourt cheatsheet

When you forgot the basic

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Reboot a linux with zombie process

Reboot, the hard way

rigs

Umbreon, the evolution of my old HTPC

In 2017, my main HTPC named Eevee will turn 10 years old (the hardware, i only use it as HTPC for 6 years). This old hardware was at first a Core2Duo E6750 / MSI P6N SLI V2 / 8800GTS / 2GB DDR2, with the years i've upgraded the CPU to a

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Increase the max VLANs on a HP Procurve

Yesterday, i had to configure a lot of HP Procurve switches, unfortunately we designed a network with 40 VLANs but most of the distribution switches (2810-48G) only allow 8 VLANs. Don't worry you can increase this limitation ! max-vlans 256 write memory reload

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CoroSync - Snippets

Get resources status crm resource status Enter CRM configuration shell crm configure Inside the configuration shell Add a vIP Adding the ip 194.78.160.194/29 on bond1.99 interface crm(live)configure# primitive VIPNAME ocf:heartbeat:IPaddr2 params ip="194.78.160.194" nic="bond1.

storage

MegaCli - Activate LSI License Key

Today i had to activate a CacheCade license on a Avago 9361-4i, accorded to the documentation you need to use the Windows controller manager to activate the license because the built-in configurator doesn't allow to enter the key. Come on ... Windows ? Really ? With chance we can use MegaCli

storage

Resize a GPT virtual disk

After the reinstallation of my multimedia server i created a too small vdisk, no problemo i use LVM, simply resize the disk in proxmox, recreate your PV partition and pvresize, that's it. Surprise, you can't resize your LVM PV partition if you have a GPT partition

networking

HP Procurve Distributed Trunk Switch to Switch "Square"

Distributed trunking at his finest.

linux

Mount a hibernated windows partition

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 14: Windows is hibernated, refused to mount.

deskmods

First home made screen support

Fix these screens !

rigs

Rei, the LAN Party build (Part 2 - The build)

How to roxx in lan :D

IT

Logrotate 100% CPU usage

Today i found a logrotate process who was using 100% of a server cpu. To find where's the problem just check the status file. tail /var/lib/logrotate.status You'll see what file is logrotate processing, in my case one rotate was misconfigured and a exponential

rigs

Rei, the LAN Party build (Part 1 - The case)

How to roxx in lan :D

rigs

D.Va, my first watercooling ! (Part 1 - The parts)

My ultimate build !

IT

Create a software RAID5 with mdadm

Create your partitions on your disks, don't format the partitions mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --assume-clean --raid-devices=4 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1

IT

Test a bunch of mail accounts from a CSV

I was dropped in a medium sized mail migration project (~500 mail accounts). Because we don't have an admin access on the old server, we need to migrate every mail account with their own credentials. The first thing we need to do in this method is to ask

IT

oVirt Windows guests can ping but nothing more

Give windows fans their internet :(

IT

Let a ping pass through an other interface on Redhat/CentOS 7/8

Wanted alive or dead : Ping

IT

NGINX StartSSL Certificate

Configure NGINX vhost with StartSSL certificate # Remove the password openssl rsa -in ssl.key -out /etc/nginx/conf/ssl.key chmod 600 /etc/nginx/conf/ssl.key wget http://www.startssl.com/certs/sub.class1.server.ca.pem # Create a unified certificate from your certificate and the CA certificates cat

IT

Boot your encrypted Android without keyboard

Last week i bought a Xiaomi MiPad 2 (it's a great tablet for 200€ !), it came without official keyboard so i've installed the google keyboard from the playstore When i've installed Meraki System Manager i was forced to encrypt my data partition but after

IT

Change your resolution for one command !

Linux doesn't really like 4k :(