Category: open source

  • Signed NVIDIA drivers on Google Cloud Dataproc 2.2

    Hello folks, I’ve been working this year on better integrating NVIDIA hardware with the Google Cloud Dataproc product (Hadoop on Google Cloud) running the default cluster node image. We have an open bug[1] in the initialization-actions repo regarding creation failures upon enabling secure boot. This is because with secure boot, kernel driver code has its…

  • IPv6 Multicast support on libvirt guests using macvtap

    # # Debian / libvirt # # By default, qemu guests network interfaces are created with the # trustGuestRxFilters attribute set to no. This setting blocks # neighbor solicitation and other ipv6 multicast traffic. To enable # neighbor solicitations, modify your interface definition in your # guest definition XML. # For example if you have…

  • Early Access: Inserting JSON data to BigQuery from Spark on Dataproc

    Hello folks! We recently received a case letting us know that Dataproc 2.1.1 was unable to write to a BigQuery table with a column of type JSON. Although the BigQuery connector for Spark has had support for JSON columns since 0.28.0, the Dataproc images on the 2.1 line still cannot create tables with JSON columns…

  • IPv6 with CenturyLink Fiber

    In case you want to know how to configure IPv6 using CenturyLink’s 6rd tunneling service. There are four files to update with my script: /etc/radvd.conf.header /etc/default/centurylink-6rd /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/centurylink-6rd /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/centurylink-6rd There are a couple of environment variables in /etc/default/centurylink-6rd that you will want to set. Mine looks like this: LAN_IFACE=”ens18,ens21,ens22″ HEADER_FILE=/etc/radvd.conf.header The script will configure radvd to…

  • Recovering videos from DV tapes with Canon ZR80

    I am recovering some tapes from back in the day that some of you may enjoy. Here is a log of the process so that maybe you can recover some of your own DV tapes. Seems to work well in modern Debian. To attach to the camcorder, I used a PCI-e card that has an…

  • I’m running an ethereum node

    cjac@server0:~/Downloads/geth-linux-amd64-1.8.14-316fc7ec$ df -h ~/.ethereum/ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg00-ethereum 148G 130G 11G 93% /home/cjac/.ethereum this was from before I ran ./geth –syncmode “fast” –cache=1024

  • Using SonarQube 5.4, Maven 3.3.9, Jenkins 2.19.1 on systems with both Java 1.7 and 1.8

    Hello folks! My team spent hours and hours beating our head against a Sonar deployment problem on Ubuntu Trusty (14.04 LTS). I thought I might share our findings so that you won’t have to! As you probably know, Trusty only makes Java Development Kit 1.7 available on the stock installation. The current stable version of…

  • OpenDaylight Symposium 2016

    I’ll write this later.  Keywords and notes inline Cloud 5G AT&T Ericsson SDN FD.io Cisco Intel Linux Debian Ubuntu Open Source Hydrogen Helium Lithium OSI stack Usability Developers and users working together. Fast Dev/Test cycles Sessions start at 10:30 Message bus Minimal install needs to be smaller Most functionalities must be implemented in modules Upgrade…

  • virt manager cannot find suitable emulator for x86 64

    Looks like I was missing qemu-kvm. $ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu-system

  • LLC-Technologies-Collier/Demo-SCCC-Byte-AngularJS

    Hello dear readers and attendees, This is the post that I will be/ will have been referencing during my presentation to the Seattle Central Community College’s Byte club on Thursday, December 10th at 1500-1630. I will begin with a bit of an autobio and find out what kind of students we have in attendance. Please…