This is the second out of three posts about a cycling trip. Checkout the first part here.
We entered Albania in Kakavie and took pass road towards Sarande. Our first day was quite rough. After cycling for the whole day we decided to take a shortcut along a land road. However, it took us way longer to reach our destination. First of all our bicycles got stuck in the mud, then we had to deal with shepherd, wild and guard dogs. The camping we hoped for did not exist and finally it started to rain heavily. Luckily we found a nice hotel to dry and warm up.
This is the first of three posts about a bicycle tour I recently finished.
During three weeks me and a friend cycled from Athens to Dubrovnik through Albania and Montenegro. It was a joyful and sometimes exhausting experience. We started at the Airport in Athens and made our way along the south-west coast up to Ioaninna. With lots of head wind we had to endure a rough start and thus decided to take things afterwards a bit more relaxed. We enjoyed the various coffee shops, friendly Greece people and the always changing scenery. From Ioaninna we rented a car to visit the Meteora monasteries. A truly astonishing place, you should look it up. Afterwards we crossed to border to Albania and found ourselves in an entirely different place.
Starting tomorrow I will head down to Athen (Greece) and the cycle to Dubrovnik (Croatia) during 3 weeks. Packing everything was quite bothersome, luckily there are tons of packing list. It seems you are almost obligated to publish yours if you go on a trip. So here goes mine:
During the extended easter weekend I did a short trip with friends to the Provence. Despite the place is quite close to Switzerland the landscape is fairly different and unfamiliar. We lent a VW camper, drove through national parks and enjoyed the local food. Althought we only went there for four days we got mesmerized by the artistic villages and excellent vine 😉.
This post is a follow-up to my last post The final rpm packaging guide. What I did not cover in the “final” guide was how to deal with the common case of packaging a service. In this post we are going to build a simple java spring boot application and package it as a systemd service into an rpm.
PEM files are base64 encoded X.509 certificates. Enclosed between -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- and -----END CERTIFICATE----- multiple PEM files can be concatinated into key- and truststores. And that is exactly what we are going to do using a Puppet manifest.
By default the ssh command does not support auto completion for host names. However, it stores all hosts you have accessed in the ~/.ssh/known_hosts file. We can take this data and use it for an auto completion function.
I would like to start a series about changing habits. In this series I want to ask a simple question about an habit I have and try to answer it from an economic point of view.
In this first post (and hopefully not the last) I would like to know if I should stop eating meat?
In my last post I have showed how to generate pkcs12 key- and truststores using openssl and keytool.
For this post we assume that we want to automate the store assembling with Puppet. Puppet is a configuration management tool that shares many ideas with Ansible. In the world of Puppet you define a manifest file that describes a state of how a file, service or any type of resource should look like. Puppet applies these manifests and makes sure that the targeted system reaches the defined state.
