There is a new certificate authority: Let's Encrypt. They provide free signed certificates for everyone and moreover the whole process of registration, certificate signing and renewing can be fully automated. The offcial client is rather complex and I dare to say bloated. There are alternatives though.
Lenovo Carbon X1 and Fedora
My old laptop was a super-heavy (and performance-heavy) Lenovo T520. Never got really used to its size. So when I had to replace my work laptop I took Lenovo X1 Carbon (3rd gen.) and installed Fedora on it. I expected improvement in every aspect. As usually I was wrong.
Agilia Conference Day 2
Here are some more of the unrefined notes from the Agilia conference along with even more unrefined thoughts about what I have learned there.
Agilia Conference Day 1
I spent Tuesday and Wednesday at the Agilia conference and it's fair to acknowledge that despite the agile development and agile organization ideas resonate with my mindset quite a lot, I have been alway somewhat repelled by the startup culture that surrounds them and the way it's been presented by some of the internet media. I've had a great chance to correct my view and not only that
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Sharing DVD drive over iSCSI
There is a new in-kernel SCSI target implementation: LIO. Unlike its predecesor it has pluggable architecture and offers some interesting features. One of them is direct SCSI pass-through that allows for sharing for example the optical drives. Here's how to set such a thing up.
Extracting subtitles from Matroska video files
From time to time I try to translate subtitles. When they're embedded in the video file itself it's not that straightforward to convert them to an editable text format. It's not actually that difficult.
Starting with a backlog
Looks like the first but it's not: this is another attempt to give some purpose to this site. Since I already decided to really use it...
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