Fuzzy search within the OpenBSD packages
Posted on 2020-05-24 22:24:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD
fzf is an addicting tool for what concerns search. The overall process is very simple, despite very quick. Moreover the tool is well presented. This post will describe how to integrate fzf with OpenBSD packages.
Read more ...Having several BSD boot on same machine
Posted on 2020-03-10 22:31:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD
I would like to re-run DragonflyBSD on my laptop where OpenBSD is running. So I'll explain how I've setup a multi-boot system.
Read more ...Running duckDB on OpenBSD
Posted on 2020-02-08 21:14:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD
After having listen to the presentation of Hannes Mühleisen given on February 2nd at Fosdem. I've decided to give a try to type of DB.
Read more ...Migrate from Legacy boot to UEFI
Posted on 2019-11-14 21:14:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD
Last week my NAS stopped working. The mother board has not resist to an unplanned power outage. So, I bought a new board J5005. After having placed the new board in the case, I was surprised to see that the board does not see the boot sector. Looking in the documentation of the board, we can ONLY use EUFI. Legacy boot is not supported!!!. Here bellow I will explain how to migrate my disk to UEFI.
Read more ...Modifications on OpenBSD sysupgrade
Posted on 2019-11-10 17:04:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD
Since version 6.6 of OpenBSD we can upgrade a machine via a simple commmand: sysupgrade.
Unfortunately this tool as some side effects annoying for me: install all sets and reboot immediately without asking it.
In this blog, I present modifications I did in order to solve those problems.
Fapws4 is running without troubles since 100 days
Posted on 2019-10-13 21:27:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD fapws
Today it's exactly 100 days that my website is running on top of Fapws4 without any troubles.
Read more ...update version of xenodm loginscreen
Posted on 2019-07-20 08:54:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Desktop
After my blog on xenodm, I've received several interesting remarks. So, this blog is to integrate some of those remarks (not all) and to include a nice looking dynamic picture.
Read more ...Fapws4 a Fast Asynchronous Python Web Server
Posted on 2019-07-17 14:34:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD fapws
Fapws4 is a re-write of fapws3, but using libraries like libuv and picohttpparser. So, the goal is to build a very fast python web server where most of the processing aspects are written in C. The developer using it, will have to simply write the logic of his web pages in Python.
Read more ...Nice looking and light login screen for xenodm
Posted on 2019-06-26 22:23:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Desktop
In this blog, I will describe how I've build a simple, but still nice looking login screen based on xenodm.
Read more ...In the series of Fast Asynchronous Python web servers
Posted on 2019-06-15 08:22:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD fapws
As already discussed on this blog, I'm a user of Fapws3 since several years. I like his small foot print in memory, simplicity to use in Python. But it runs only with Python-2.x and cannot manage correctly POST commands with big files.
So, I've decided to jump into the C programming language and develop Fapws4. An evolution of Fapws3, that do not have those pain points.
In this blog, I will show you first results of Fapws4
Read more ...How to filter files for a backup ?
Posted on 2019-05-05 16:12:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Nas
With the posix tar command, we cannot exclude files' pattern like gnu-tar does. This article will propose some alternatives.
Read more ...Simple way to generate strong passwords
Posted on 2019-03-16 16:19:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Security
More and more persons are using a password storage system. Thanks to those systems, we can put complex passwords in our different applications. So, the next need is to create such complex password. This blog will explain how to do it. At the end of the blog, you will see how to perform this on OpenBSD in a simple and efficient way
Read more ...moving from vim to nvim
Posted on 2019-03-08 13:47:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD nvim
I'm a vim user since several years. This blog explain how I move to neovim.
Read more ...News concerning Yabitrot
Posted on 2019-02-19 20:36:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Nas yabitrot
In this blog some news concerning the last changes implemented in yabitrot version 0.4
Read more ...A non standard method to update OpenBSD
Posted on 2019-02-11 22:16:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD
In this blog I'll share the method I'm using to upgrade my OpenBSD machines without using the console.
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