Backups are important. Not keeping all backups is equally important. Especially when you are taking backups of big databases, and you don’t have enough space to keep 500TB of data backups. Therefore I wrote a script that deletes old backups. I wanted to keep at least one back up / quarter for several years (until I, or someone else cleans [...]

And yet another issue with cron. I want to get an e-mail when something goes wrong on our servers. Especially if it’s a scheduled script that I normally don’t check that often any-more. (as you know from my previous post, some of scripts run every 10s, so even if I would check it by hand every hour, a serious backlog [...]

For a client I needed to run a specific script every 10seconds. 24/24 and 7/7. A task I would normally perform with crons. But sadly enough, a cron can only be started once per minute. So I wrote a ‘runner’ script. A script that starts the other script

Numius, the company where I work is an important player when it comes to business intelligence in Belgium. Last year we decided to concentrate more on the cloud. We had a lot of in house knowledge already, so why not use it to build a good platform with IBM software and hardware? Early 2011 we decided to start with a [...]

I regularly use a screen that my fedora install doesn’t recognize. I mean, it can’t find the right resolution. And that’s annoying. Luckily there is xrandr to solve such problems. But always using 4 commands is rather annoying, so I made a small script for it.

Fosdem 2012 is coming near, in a big month probably the biggest open source event in Europe will start again! And as always, Fedora people will visit fosdem with great quantities. So I’m putting a lot of effort in making this the best Fosdem for Fedora people ever. I hear you thinking, how can this event become even better? Well, [...]

If you follow me on twitter, you probably already knew I was in Italy last weekend. Milan to be exact. I think this was my first FUDcon where I didn’t give a talk – hacksession myself. Luckily there were enough other sessions happening so I wouldn’t get bored. At the moment I’m in a plane flying to Zurich, where I [...]

this is one I always forget. So I’ll write it down for myself There are 2 ways to unmount a device when it’s busy.

or not? but I want more o.0

Because it’s still extremely nice weather I think we should hole a first geeknic in Ghent. ever. I think. come on over! bring some food and drinks. enjoy the weather, share some thoughts, and share some food. for the expats: if you bring food from your country you win extra points I think it would be nice to meet up [...]