For my audio system I’m making use of Logitech Squeezeboxes, as I’ve converted most of my CD’s (yes I’m old ;)) to MP3 format. In this way I’m able to play/stream the same music throughout my house. Spotify is also integrated into this set-up so I’m able to play that as well.
But I also have a record player (old remember ;)) with vinyl records. It would be nice to play them through the same system….
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UTM as a makeshift Vagrant replacement
It’s almost becoming a series about UTM, my quest of finding replacements for tooling I used on my Intel based MacBook Pro. This time a little article about how I’m using UTM as a replacement for my usage of Vagrant.
Continue reading “UTM as a makeshift Vagrant replacement”Using Rosette with UTM and Docker
When buying a new laptop I settled for a MacBook Pro with a M2 processor. As I was used to an Intel based MacBook Pro with virtual machines and Docker containers I keep searching for replacements for the functionality I was used to. Earlier I’ve written a blog post about running an Oracle Database on the M2 MacBook pro, this time I’d like to talk about using x86 based containers.
Continue reading “Using Rosette with UTM and Docker”Disable “automatic-wifi”
With the newer versions of macOS the Wifi of your MacBook is being enabled automatically when the laptop is being restarted. This might not be something you want.
Continue reading “Disable “automatic-wifi””Schedule sleep times mac
Starting with macOS Ventura, Apple in all its wisdom seems to have removed the scheduling possibilities for sleeping and waking your MacBook from the power options.
Continue reading “Schedule sleep times mac”Using a remote USB serial device locally (Linux)
Sometimes you want to use a USB serial device at a different location of where it is “plugged in”. With two tools (ser2net and socat) this is quite easy to do.
Continue reading “Using a remote USB serial device locally (Linux)”Lookup udev attributes
In a previous post (Passing serial port to unprivileged container) I needed to create an udev rule to adjust the permissions on a serial port I wanted to pass through to a container. How did I come up with the values needed in the rule?
Continue reading “Lookup udev attributes”Passing serial port to unprivileged container
I make use of Proxmox and sometimes you need to use an external device within a LXC container. This article describes howto pass a serial port to the container, but the procedure is the same for any device.
Continue reading “Passing serial port to unprivileged container”Quickstart Apex with docker-compose
Sometimes you have the need to quickly spin up an Oracle Apex install to test something out or to just have a “clean” instance. Luckily this is quite easily done with Docker.
Continue reading “Quickstart Apex with docker-compose”Solve a “hanging” docker-compose
For a lot of things I’m using docker and docker-compose. With one of my docker hosts I noticed something odd. Sometimes it took a while to fire up docker-compose. I could see the command was being executed by the shell but I had to wait (sometimes up to a minute) before docker-compose seemed to “react”. This kept me quite puzzled.
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