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FOAAS WordPress Plugin

bgrolleman — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 07:35:18 +0000

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How to automate vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib install without EULA questions

bgrolleman — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 12:56:15 +0000

Unpacking a tar.gz to install something is enough pain, to fully automate this I need the installer to run without asking stupid questions.

So after a quick read of the code I found the following switches.

./vmware-install.pl --default EULA_AGREED=yes ISC_COPYRIGHT_SEEN=yes

BOOM, hand’s off install. Now to package this stuff with fpm, add the above line with full path to installscript.sh and make package

fpm -s dir -t rpm -v 6.0.0 -a x86_64 --after-install installscript.sh /opt/vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib

This can be cleaner by adding an uninstall switch

Minecraft Install Shorthand

bgrolleman — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:13:01 +0000

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:minecraft-installer-peeps/minecraft-installer

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y minecraft-installer

Random Chrome Crashes

bgrolleman — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 07:48:08 +0000

I stopped using chrome a while back, constant crashing made it unusable as a daily driver. Wasn’t to hard switching to Firefox, but I was missing the per app icon feature I could use in Ubuntu. Allowing me to make every web application feel more like a separate program in unity.

Then I found this articleÂ http://www.rfc3092.net/2014/05/too-many-open-files-foo-with-chrome-on-ubuntu-13-10/, it boils down to increasing filesystem file-max and ulimit as chrome uses a lot of small files.

This solved all issues I had, chrome isn’t crashing anymore and everything seems much more stable.

Now all that was left to do is figure out why it needs so much memory, in the end it seems that adblock was the main issue, I switched to uBlockÂ and now except for gmail most tab’s seem to behave in memory consumption.

Happy camper

Sending Uptimerobot notifications to pushover

bgrolleman — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 06:50:07 +0000

I wanted to use Pushover with Uptimerobot, as it’s a much nicer way to be notified about site issues then email. Unfortunately, Uptimerobot only supports GET requests and pushover needs POST requests.So to fix that I wrote a small PHP script that I loaded on my OPS machine that converts the GET to a POST request and does a bit of nice formatting while doing so. I put the code up on bitbucket.

https://bitbucket.org/bgrolleman/uptimerobot2pushover

Feel free to use as you please, I expect it to be short lived since UptimeRobot already has POST in the plans, and once that’s finished the script will not be needed anymore.

I considered making my “gateway” public here, but I should really protect people against posting API and USER tokens to my script, since a GET statement will be logged in full and as a result isn’t very secure.