Kevin Deldycke — 🦬🪒🐇🕳 yak-shaving the rabbit holes

!!! alert alert-warning “Disclaimer” This is a dirty hack! To parse HTML or XML, use a dedicated library. Tonight I found the ultimate regex to get HTML tags out of a string. It was written a year ago by Phil Haack on his blog . His regex is quite bullet-proof: it’s …

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Today mdadm send me a mail to warn that one of my hard drive ( /dev/hdd1 ) was ejected from my RAID-5 array. After some manipulations (no writes, just reads on the file system to get information) and reboots, I ended up with a file system in a strange state …

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Here is a little piece of code I want to share with you. I created this some months ago for the Cool Cavemen band . They wanted to release all tracks of their new LP on their website, one track per week. That’s the main purpose of the code below …

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In this tiny how-to I’ll explain you how to setup a machine as a NFS server and an other one as a client. This example was written based on my experiences on Mandriva, but all commands should almost be the same for other distributions. First, on the server, install …

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For some months, I own a Samsung Q35 laptop which is powered by a Mandriva 2007.0. As describe in its technical specification this machine include an Intel GMA 950 GPU  . lspci give us more details: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and …

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