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 […]
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While creating my new homepage on https://mbo.dev I was looking for a command line tool to optimise images. Best tool for the job seemed to be imagemagic in combination with mozjpeg. Here the command I used which brought the images down very very much: The quality may change but I couldn’t see the difference without
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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
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It’s quite easy to mix up spring-boot-start-cache with 2nd level caching in hibernate. In this post I want to take down how to enable both and being able to run tests from within intellij and gradle (which isn’t the default if you just follow most tutorials). To have proper dependencies for this i added the
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.
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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 –
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Trying to install google cloud sdk on my new 13 inch M1 Mac Book failed with homebrew and also with the manual installer with the following error message: I couldn’t find a way how to fix this with the brew install command. But the manual installation gives you a chance to have it installed. The
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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
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