Yeah, so my blog is back!

I've finally found a way to publish the content I want to publish; in a friendly way.

Pelican is the software I use to generate my website now. This is much safer and nicer for all of the involved; including my server.

I can …

Well, I just had this question and went over to #openstack @ Freenode. There, notmyname (apparently, a moderator or @ps of some kind) answered:

12:20 < notmyname> Renich: I saw you asking questions about swift earlier
12:20 < notmyname> Renich: about object count per container
12:27 < notmyname> Renich: in case …

Ok, that sounds funny, doesn't it? Well, it turns out, sometimes, you want to test your kernel dump or something of the sorts. Here's how to do it:

echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger

This will, instanly, crash your kernel.

References:

• Todor Tanev from StorPool.

I've been writing some script to configure some firewall and came up with this way of asking a question in Bash. I hope it helps as an example. Feel free to contribute your own:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

ask() {
    local query=$1

    if ( echo $query | grep -qi password ); then
        read …