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Well, I had planned to publish a completely different version from the one I made in the video of the same name. For those who have not watched it: it is over here! Watch the video on YouTube ↗ Joshua can talk, but you can replace espeak with something sexier. …

Why keep using the Bash language in the administration of GNU / Linux servers when there are so many tools geared more towards devops, such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Saltstack? (etc.) It is not without reason that sh, and bash, which I consider a healthy evolution of the first, remain, despite the decades that …

Several of you have been asking about our little rescued kitten. To those I have not answered, I am sorry for my silence, but I did not have the heart to reply. I will keep this short, because our hearts are very heavy, and reliving this moment is difficult… But since so many of you are asking …

Well, when I announced on Telegram and elsewhere that I had missed the deadline for copying the Debian Stretch folder from the Sury repository for php because I was busy rescuing a kitten, some thought I had come up with a funny excuse for the oversight and made the whole story up. But I had not! …

Hello everyone, over the last 5 years at ScalarX, we have had the opportunity to experiment with different backup strategies for our ScalarCloud cloud infrastructures, each with its advantages and drawbacks. The current strategy (apart from clients with dedicated, bespoke backup infrastructure) is as follows: 1) …

Good evening, friends, I promised you a video on this subject after my latest biologic treatment. It is now done. In this video, I have tried to condense what took me hours in classes and conferences down to the essentials while …

Hello, I said in this video that I would publish the script after reviewing it. Well, I have not had time to review it or clean it up, but it works. If you want to know more about it, I invite you to watch this video: Watch the …

Hello friends, I hope you are well. Just under a year ago, following a video on the subject, I published the script I was writing in it, designed to automate the provisioning and removal of Pingdom alerts automatically …

Hello friends, I hope you are well. As a number of you (more than 200!) have pointed out to me, it has been almost 3 months since I last appeared on Youtube. I usually tell you I will be back soon (spoiler alert: it's true.), and some wonder whether that will ever happen, whether …

Introduction. Hello friends, I hope you are well. As several of you know by now, I have left the role I held for more than 20 years at the company I founded. Apologies in advance to anyone reading this post hoping to find the reasons for my departure: you will not find them …

Hello friends. Just a short message to tell you, with a twinge of sadness, that after more than 22 years, I have been forced to leave my role at Digital Network. For reasons of confidentiality and ongoing proceedings, I unfortunately cannot say any more at this stage about the reasons for …