To have control and management over IT assets, equipment, and labs, I’ve been trying iTop. iTop stands for IT Operations Portal. It’s a complete web-based ITIL service management tool that includes a fully customizable CMDB, a helpdesk system, and a document management tool. It offers bulk import tools and web services to integrate with your IT. I set up a small lab to test it. …
I describe how to change the default browser for Jupyter Lab on a Mac. If we don’t do anything and launch jupyter lab from the command line, the system’s default browser (Safari) will be invoked. If you want to change it to Chrome, follow the steps below. …
This post contains my GIT cheat sheet, various reminders I use as a programmer — common commands or situations. It comes in handy for example when I accidentally delete a file and want to recover it, check a previous version of code, or ignore a modification in a specific file. …
Pi-hole is a DNS (and DHCP) server that protects your devices from unwanted content, without needing to install any software on the clients in your network. Its use case is to act as a sinkhole for the advertising that floods today’s networks. Yes, a small Linux PC with Pi-hole on your home network to prevent tons of ads from reaching you while you browse. …
The systemd manager allows configuring services from a normal system user. These systemd user services are a little-known but very useful feature. It consists of being able to create and use .service files from a user’s local directory that run with their privileges. …
Vagrant creates and runs virtual machines, relying on virtualization providers such as Virtualbox, KVM, Docker, VMWare, and 30+ others. It will always default to launching the VM with Virtualbox unless we explicitly specify a different provider. In this guide I explain how I set up Vagrant with the Libvirt KVM provider on Linux. …