2018

Remove all WordPress Featured Images

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I used to use “Featured Images” in my posts to illustrate the main tag. Now that I changed my theme (namely Twenty Fourteen), those icon-sized images don’t show up well. I decided to simply drop them all so that nothing is displayed by the theme. This is done easily using MySQL:

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Synology DSM monitoring with Monit

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Monit is small, monit is fast, monit is installed on each of my servers. Unfortunately, I couldn’t found a package for Synology DSM 6. Hopefully, DSM is based on Linux and Monit provides binaries. So let’s install, run and monitor DSM using Monit.

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Upgrade encrypted OpenBSD from 6.2 to 6.3

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I took the time to switch from OpenBSD 6.2 to 6.3 on my Cloud instance with encrypted disk. As usual, it went smooth and troubleless. For the record, here are the directions.

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Backup and Restore InfluxDB databases

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Once upon a time, the collectd database was hosted on the dagobah InfluxDB 1.4.x server. Then came the moment when it had to be migrated to the hoth server. The backup and restore process happened this way…

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Force OpenBSD to use unbound(8) DNS resolver in DHCP client mode

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By default, a DHCP client gets an IP address, a network gateway and a DNS server. That’s fine most of the time. But if you own an OpenBSD cloud instance that has to use DHCP to get online, you might not be satisfied with the domain-name-servers option provided by your DHCP server. Hopefully, OpenBSD provides an easy way to force your DNS: # viĀ /etc/dhclient.conf (...) prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1; Since then, OpenBSD will use our DNS resolver. Which is… unbound(8)

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