I just had a discussion where I was told that docker-desktop isn’t usable anymore because of their new licensing. So I had a look if docker-desktop is really required. In the end it is just a nicer integration with some desktop app to manage the background vm. I installed virtualbox and set up a vm …
As a big fan of postgresql I’m following latest releases based on the stable updates channel. But every time a new major release comes our you end up with two running instances on your machine and you have to upgrade your data from the old to the new one. Here some steps how I did …
I installed a raid1 with two 3.5″ sata disks in one of my machines. Instead of using mdadm as usual I decided to go with btrfs this time. Here the commands I used for that (as root): This was already working properly and I was able to copy my data on the newly created raid. …
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All my virtual machine hosts are using networkd bridging to announce IPs of their vms in my network and now I just found the easiest way to configure this without manually changing any config files like I always did before. Here is how I added a bridge br0 to my physical interface enp1s0: Works already …
Add network bridge on ubuntu 20.04 LTS with Network Manager cli Read More »
On my ubuntu server I had to install libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra to get rid of this warning
I wrote a small script and posted it on github that helps cloning vms based on kvm qemu. Came quite handy if multiple clones of a golden image are required.
Sometimes I am installing software and would like to have a starter entry in the menu or the sidepanel but some programs don’t create one. But it’s quite easy to add a custom runner. Just create a file somewhere on your disk. I used my home directory (~) and Postman as an example app – …
My latest IntelliJ installation didn’t come with a command line idea command so I wrote a short script and put it to /usr/local/bin/idea on my local machine. This will only work on a mac. If you’re facing the lack of the command as well you need to find the path to your idea.sh and put …
IntelliJ 2020.3 cli command – run idea from your shell again Read More »
Recently I was wondering why my shell is taking so long to show a prompt and was able to track it to nvm – node version manager. The check which version to use as default takes quite long so I was looking for a solution that allows me to keep nvm functionality and have a …
I’m using docker for a lot of projects and have to switch context very often – I know – that kind of sucks, but that’s how it is… Most containers can’t be shared between projects and I don’t want to spend more resources than necessary as my machines are on their limits. So I wrote …