Today I’ve tried out CARP, the Common Address Redundancy Protocol, which allows you to easily set up automatic failover for machines which usually become single points of failure in your infrastructure like loadbalancers, firewalls and routers. It was so easy and quick that I made a short video demonstrating it: Commands # Machine 1 ifconfig […]
A lot of people have tried to get Erlang running on OSX with 64Bit and wxWidgets and there are plenty of guides out there but most of them claim that it doesn’t work with 64Bit. I just successfully compiled it as 64Bit on 10.9.2 and here is how I did it: 1. I installed wxWidgets […]
I’m a huge FreeBSD fan. My very first home router ran FreeBSD back in the late 90’s and since then I have installed it on every single server I worked with. I do realize that this is some kind of niche since almost everybody else is running Linux these days. This is why I thought […]
For people who have the same problem: I have tried to install a port that fetches its source from github and it failed to fetch it. When I tried the fetch command manually for the given URL I saw the following error: fetch https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/archive/v1.7.3.tar.gz Certificate verification failed for /C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/OU=www.digicert.com/CN=DigiCert High Assurance EV CA-1 34380826280:error:14090086:SSL […]
Here is a little tip. I have just finished mixing concert recording. The mixing was done in Reaper at 24bit/48kHz and now I needed to convert / downsample it to 16bit/44.1kHz. If you leave that up to black box encoders you can actually hear a change in tonality or loudness even with untrained ears. At […]