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About mark

At work, been working on Tandems for around 30yrs (programming + sysadmin), plus AIX and Solaris sysadmin also thrown in during the last 20yrs; also about 5yrs on MVS (mainly operations and automation but also smp/e work). At home I have been using linux for decades. Programming background is commercially in TAL/COBOL/SCOBOL/C(Tandem); 370 assembler(MVS); C, perl and shell scripting in *nix; and Microsoft Macro Assembler(windows).

So you want to play with Kubernetes, try MiniKube

Posted on July 17, 2021 by mark

First off, if you have a few spare physical machines; or machines with enough resources to run a few well resourced VMs it is fairly simple to install Kubernetes itself. I have a fairly old OpenStack stack deployment yaml file … Continue reading →

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Setting up a CI pipeline on Linux for your home lab

Posted on February 14, 2021 by mark

Setting up a continuous integration pipeline for your home lab may seem like overkill, but if you have the memory available it is simple to do and if you have an interest in these tools why not :-). And it … Continue reading →

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Is OpenIndianna a viable replacement for CentOS8, for me no

Posted on January 2, 2021 by mark

A post in my ongoing saga to find a replacement operating system for CentOS8. These posts are primarily notes I am making for myself on why I consider an OS an acceptable replacement or something I personally cannot use to … Continue reading →

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Is openSUSE Leap a viable replacement for CentOS8, for me no

Posted on January 2, 2021 by mark

A post in my ongoing saga to find a replacement operating system for CentOS8. These posts are primarily notes I am making for myself on why I consider an OS an acceptable replacement or something I personally cannot use to … Continue reading →

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Is Debian a viable alternative to CentOS8, for me yes

Posted on December 28, 2020 by mark

Since the RedHat announcement that CentOS8 ‘stable’ is becoming a test system on centOS8 ‘stream’ rather than being provided as a stable system anymore many people are looking for alternative operating systems. I have already covered in the previous post … Continue reading →

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The Oracle conversion script to convert CentOS to Oracle Linux, and an alternative

Posted on December 26, 2020 by mark

As mentioned in my previous post there is a script supplied to convert CentOS systems to Oracle Linux, available at https://github.com/oracle/centos2ol. As mentioned in that post it is not safe to use at the currect time. At the end of … Continue reading →

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Is Oracle Linux a viable alternative to CentOS

Posted on December 25, 2020 by mark

By now you are all aware of the RedHat/IBM decision to destroy CentOS as a viable stable platform. Oracle has been suggested on many Forums as an alternative. While some responses on forums indicate a belief that Oracle Linux is … Continue reading →

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Still wanting to play those old SWF Flash files browsers no longer support ?

Posted on November 26, 2020 by mark

Want to be able to use those old Shockwave Flash files again ? As we all know all browsers are dropping support for Flash due to its security risks. This can be an issue if you have a large collection … Continue reading →

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Installing OpenStack Ussuri in a multicompute node configuration in your home lab

Posted on November 3, 2020 by mark

This post covers installing from the RDO project documentation that can be found at https://www.rdoproject.org, it uses the ‘packstack’ tool covered at https://www.rdoproject.org/install/packstack with the main changes in this post being defining additional compute nodes plus installing heat support as … Continue reading →

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DropBox and its LanSync facility

Posted on September 17, 2020 by mark

First let me make it clear this post is on dropbox as used in a Linux environment, specifically for this post Fedora (Fedora 32). Dropbax clients may behave differently in different environments. What is lansync The dropbox reference pages promote … Continue reading →

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