Hi, I'm Alex

Back in 2007 I came to Athens as a first year Computer Engineer student, so I bought a PC with 1G RAM and an Intel Core Celeron CPU for 400 euros. Ten years later this PC is still alive, running on Lubuntu and I use it mainly to listen music,... [Read More]

Thinking about a title for this post, I was between this and How to delete 6 servers in one move. I decided to keep the first one, because it makes it clear that I am going to talk about bash scripting and something that went reaaaally bad! [Read More]

You may have already heard Terminator; it is a project that extends the classic linux terminal, in order to help you fill your screen area with consoles, as effectively as you can. If you have not already installed it, you should really give it a try! Take a look on... [Read More]

When I decided I should start blogging, I did not think a lot about where my blog should be hosted. Nor the format my posts would be nice to have. I just opened a gedit editor, made myself a warm cup of coffee and started typing my first welcome post.... [Read More]

At a previous post I described how you can create a minimal SaltStack installation with a master and two minion nodes, running on KVM VMs. Now, I will describe the same procedure using linux containers; the steps to achieve a proper working installation are few and simple. [Read More]