Welcome to jnvilo.com

Soooo... somehow you found your way to jnvilo.com. This site contains linux stuff and other things I put online. Mostly notes, documentation and other things I want to remember or have access to wherever I am. I put them up online in the hope that they may be usefull to others. The site is also a sort of web development toy for me and technology test so to speak. The website is often rewritten in whatever framework I happen to be playing around at the time. Currently it is written in python using the excellent Django framework.

Favourite Entry: Why I moved to Mac

Jan. 1, 2012, 8:08 a.m.

"Sure, I don’t get to spend hours building my own drivers, or configuring my xconf for my dual-headed display using different graphics cards. To be honest, I’ve grown out of that. Now I just want to switch my computer on and work. Even better, I just want to open the lid and work, and when I close the lid again I want it to go to sleep. I want the beautiful display, the simple interface, the bouncy icons and the eight-hour battery life. I want what so many flavours of Linux promised and never delivered – worktime productivity with sexiness and speed rolled into one overpriced silver package with backlit keys."[ posted by some other jason on the net ]   ....[read more]

Recent Entries:

Why I moved to Mac

Jan. 1, 2012, 8:08 a.m.
"Sure, I don’t get to spend hours building my own drivers, or configuring my xconf for my dual-headed display using different graphics cards. To be honest, I’ve grown out of that. Now I just want to switch my computer on and work. Even better, I just want to open the lid and work, and when I close the lid again I want it to go to sleep. I want the beautiful display, the simple interface, the bouncy icons and the eight-hour battery life. I want what so many flavours of Linux promised and never delivered – worktime productivity with sexiness and speed rolled into one overpriced silver package with backlit keys."[ posted by some other jason on the net ]   ....[read more]

Allow NFS traffic through firewall on Centos 6 and Redhat 6

Nov. 14, 2011, 6:20 a.m.
NFS is a protocol that uses more than one port and actually also uses both TCP and UDP. Another issue on the standard NFS setup is that NFS does not use standard static ports unless told to do so. Hence we must also configure NFS server to stick to the same ports all the time, and also configure our NFS clients and tell it what specific ports the server is listining on.    ....[read more]

[HOWTO]: Add a Favicon to your Site

Oct. 26, 2011, 3:29 a.m.
You do this simply by specifying a favicon is to use the rel attribute value "icon" and to define what the value means via a profile; profiles are discussed in more detail below. In this HTML 4.01 example, the favicon identified via the URI http://example.com/myicon.png as being a favicon:   ....[read more]

[HOWTO] Watch directory and files with inotify

Oct. 2, 2011, 4:53 a.m.
Inotify is a Linux® feature that monitors file system operations, such as read, write, and create. Inotify is reactive, surprisingly simple to use, and far more efficient than, say, busy polling from a cron job. Learn how to integrate inotify into your own applications, and discover a set of command-line tools you can use to further automate system administration.   ....[read more]

Puppet Resources

Sept. 6, 2011, 8:03 a.m.
Puppet is an indispensable configuration management and Linux automation tool for the system administrator who prefers to spend her time improving the infrastructure, rather than doing tedious manual labour. Chef, Puppet, Fabric and other tools can be a huge boost to productivity. From small beginnings, you can grow your Puppet installation to manage a whole network, or many networks. However, with great power comes a steep learning curve. There are lots of great resources and tutorials available if you want to learn Puppet - here’s a brief guide for aspiring devops.   ....[read more]