Dan's technical ramblings
By default Ubuntu does not install the EWS (Exchange Web Service) plugin for Evolution sudo apt-get install evolution-ews Then go into Evolution and choose the following settings: Server Type: Exchange Web Service Username: WINDOWS-DOMAIN\username Host URL: https://webmail.company.com/owa/ Now click “Fetch URL” and it should ask you for a password and populate the Host and OAB […]
I had to switch to using proprietor AMD drivers as the open source ones don’t support audio via display port, but after switching, Chrome was tearing and just going completely black. The chrome GPU page reported no hardware acceleration enabled. So I went to Chrome Flags page and forced GPU acceleration and rasterisation Override software […]
The Limits to Growth The Limits to Growth is a 1972 book about the computer simulation of exponential economic and population growth with finite resource supplies. EdX EdX offers free online courses and classes. Find the latest MOOC from the world’s best universities including MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, UT and others. Impact Hub Part innovation lab, […]
The Spirit Level (Book) Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Australians? The answer: inequality. Kennedy on GDP Great speech by Kennedy on what’s wrong with GDP as a measurement The […]
The Hard Thing About Hard Things Have bought the book, looks very applicable to me at the moment. War Games – Simulate worse case scenario Haven’t found a good link for this with regards to IT Service recovery paradox Logging Stuff FluentD Loggly LogEntries PaperTrail Monitoring DataDog Ruxit Evans Phoenix – Structured Logging Operational Features […]
These are my random links from the excellent 2 day conference Operability.IO. These are all links mentioned in different talks. Worse is Better Much to the shock of my collages I had not read about this before. Now I have! OSV / Capstan I’ve been using hyper.sh which is very similar except it uses Docker […]
Firstly make sure you can run the standard CloudFoundry cli: cf logs [APP_NAME] Then turn on tracing: export CF_TRACE=true You will see a HTTP request and then it will switch to a secure WebSocket: WEBSOCKET REQUEST: [2015-04-22T11:27:22+01:00] GET /tail/?app=[APP_GUID] HTTP/1.1 Host: wss://loggregator.[YOUR_CF_DOMAIN]:443 Upgrade: websocket Connection: Upgrade Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13 Sec-WebSocket-Key: [HIDDEN] Origin: http://localhost Authorization: [PRIVATE DATA […]