Yesterday, a couple cute Mormon missionaries came over to me and chatted me up. I estimated the three of them to be roughly my age, probably a couple years younger, around 22 to 23. It was a beautiful, sunny Saturday and I incidentally was sitting on a bench near a church. Later they told me they are specifically roaming these areas to do their work. They started out the conversation talking about their strong belief in god, how they talk to him, and how he would answer them their questions. They proceeded asking me what questions I had for god. I didn’t have one and couldn’t even come up with one, but I was interested in chatting with them, so I invited them to sit down with me.
[Read More]Tinder Manifesto
Manifesto: noun. A public declaration of policy and aims, especially one issued before an election by a political party or candidate.
Tinder could get dirty. Tinder could get tedious. I wrote down my original aims when I started using tinder here, before everything falls into chaos later. Much like with other manifestos ;)
[Read More]What do we know about who we want to be?
It is pretty important for each of us to be the person we want to be. For survival, for society, for integrity. But what do we know then about who we want to be?
[Read More]The three most important skills to have as a young adult
TL;DR:
- The skill to change your habits, so you could start trying new ones (better or worse than your current ones) to begin with.
- The skill to build the desire of trying things truly out of your comfort zone, so you could expand your horizon and thereby change more of your habits.
- The skill of writing, so you could articulate what it is that you want. Also writing can be a great tool for changing your habits.
Monitoring & Ansible, Part I: NRPE daemon setup
Monitoring servers using icinga usually requires a small setup on the monitored server. From the different choices of agents, the nrpe daemon ontop of xinetd is easy enough to set up, while it can provide any kind of information that is available on the monitored server locally. To automate this setup task and as a learning exercise I wrote up an Ansible playbook, which I describe here.
The linux world is big, so you might come here asking: “Why the hell do you use xinetd and nrpe for monitoring?
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Wie stehst Du im Leben?
Wie stehst du im Leben? Ein einfaches Beobachten der Körperhaltung kann einem schon buchstäblich zeigen wie man im Leben steht. Es ist eine Art Haltungs-Check. Jeder liest Körperhaltung - zumindest unbewusst, meine Beobachtung dazu teile ich hier.
[Read More]Icinga2 Cluster Checks
Recently I wrote an icinga cluster check which can currently check whether a service runs on atleast on one of two servers.
A teaser of the results:
Procmail learns html
Recently I wrote a procmail filter which filters mail for a ticketing system (request-tracker). It filters mails which addresses the ticketing system in Cc as well as mails with attachments bigger than 10 MB. I went through quite a learning curve while writing this filter so I’d like to share it here.
[Read More]Blogging Setup: Workflow for writing a new blogpost
Creating a new blog post using the previously describe setup should be easy and comfortable. These are the generic steps for adding a blog-post.
[Read More]Setting up the blog
A quick howto on how I used Hugo to setup this blog.
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