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Apple Screensaver Video Downloader
Yesterday, I came across an intriguing article about Mac screensavers, which instantly brought back a nostalgic memory of a script I had encountered years ago. This script had the remarkable ability to retrieve screensaver files and apply them to other screensavers, allowing for a personalized touch. Filled with excitement, I set out on a quest […]
System Info Collector
Tool to capture System Information from Windows and *nix hosts and store it in a database – GitHub –
XFS and VDO – A losing Combination
A few Bytes too many I have one volume on XFS on a VDO (Legacy) partition, this volume hosts all of my docker containers and resides on a physical RAID device. The docker containers themselves are quite happy with this arrangement, until… One docker container in particular doesn’t trim or compress it’s logs, and it […]
Retro Computing
The passion of Retro Computing, combined with a love of legacy technologies. I’ve been working on a another area of the site, regarding retro computing and will have it done in a few days. In the mean time, check it out: Retro Computing
If you want an adventure:
I read … a lot. I have fallen into a book series over the last few years that is amazingly entertaining and is now up to 14 Books in the main series, including a pair of spinoff stories, and a short story. If you like Sci-Fi, Comedy and some great alien and military action, you […]
Fixing Cinder with LVM difficult volumes
Deleting a volume that cinder won’t delete (Error Deleting) if a volume goes into a state of error_deleting, you can still manually delete it, this is caused usually by amqp timeouts or a volume persisting across the reboot of a controller in a disconnected state. get the UUID of the volume from cinder: [root@oscontroller openstack_scripts]# […]
Quick One-Liner: Post to a Webhook with curl
uploadImage to Glance
One of the more tedious constant tasks in Openstack, especially if you’re using CI/CD, is to update images. Here’s a little script to make this just a little easier for you. NOTE: On some versions of Ubuntu, the Read command doesn’t work exactly as expected (I haven’t put the effort in to fine-tune this) so […]