Some VPS providers, e.g. Azure provide you with 2 disk drives for your VPSes. One, of very limited size, system disk, and the other one, spacy but with not guarantees that the data survives reboot. Basically it means that you can have a small VPS, wi ... read more →

Recently I've started working on changing my default development workflow. I'm evaluating vagrant as a main env manager, and then docker for extra speed. In short, my vagrant up boots up new dev box and then couple of docker containers. What I've fou ... read more →

Eagle is still the first choice when it comes to Open Hardware electronics design. That's a bit unfortunate because the software itself is proprietary. Sometimes you need to run it though. For example to migrate projects over to non-proprietary softw ... read more →

I've spent quite some time recently trying to get a laptop running Gentoo boot from an encrypted partition with LVM. I thought that this might be useful for someone else, so here you are: First things first: I'm assuming you've followed Gentoo handbo ... read more →

Update from 10 years into the future ! It's 2023 and the repo is still going strong, using lots of Nix and friends tho and also hosted elsewhere - edited the URLs. All my dofiles live here now. Removed the links from the article below as they don't ... read more →

Hey, remember my search for the new laptop ? It's finally over ! I found that Clevo, Taiwanese custom laptop manufacturer, has recently added 13'3 FullHD laptop base to their offerings - W230ST. And to my surprise - there is a Polish importer which a ... read more →

I'm experimenting with service separation by having each service run in its own operating system, all of the sharing hardware though. Why ? Separation seems to be the only secure approach to running any software. Check Joanna's blog out. I went with ... read more →

Just a quick one, for me to remember and for you to enjoy. dpkg -l | grep :i386 | cut -s -d ' ' -f3 | xargs apt-get remove -y dpkg --remove-architecture i386 apt-get update read more →

Operating system I think my NAS box build is no longer in much flux, so I thought it'd be nice to describe it. I had some disks laying around, I had them installed and started playing with the software setup. Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 byt ... read more →

Update 2023: crunchbang is no longer a thing, replaced by bunsenlabs Please note that I no longer host this kernel as it is very old and also Crunchbang is no more.** Some time ago I got my hands on CrunchBang Linux distro, which is great. The only ... read more →