Author Archives: Will Foster

About Will Foster

hobo devop/sysadmin/SRE

€7 Quick, Delicious Vegetarian Pasta Recipe: Olive e Capperi

Posted on August 22, 2015 by Will Foster

Here’s a quick, delicious Neapolitan vegetarian pasta dish: Olive e Capperi or “Olive and Pepper” Pasta. Total time: 15-20minutes, total cost: €7 and feeds two people. Prices are based in Dublin, Ireland and may differ for you. Optionally you can … Continue reading →

Posted in food | Tagged cooking, food, italian, pasta, recipe, vegetarian | 3 Comments

Simple Disk Performance Testing with Linux

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Will Foster

I recently did some testing on my home Linux fileserver with Bonnie++ at the urging of a friend who wanted to compare his numbers. I also ran similar tests with dd and hdparm. Here’s what I ran, the results, and … Continue reading →

Posted in open source, sysadmin | Tagged bonnie++, linux, performance, server, sysadmin | 3 Comments

It’s Tuna Tataki Time!

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Will Foster

Here’s a simple recipe for tataki tuna with vegetables. Fairly quick, easy and healthy. You’ll ideally want sashimi grade tuna. Total time, 1hour with ingredients costing around €22 if you have nothing to start with. This serves more than enough … Continue reading →

Posted in food | Tagged asian, cooking, food, home cooking, recipe, tuna | 2 Comments

Craft Pick: Siren Brewing – Broken Dreams Stout

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Will Foster

I’m pretty picky with stouts, being more of a Czech Pilsner and non-overpowering APA/IPA fan. A friend of mine recently introduced this wonderful stout to me, Siren Brewing – Broken Dreams. It set me back about €3.95 a bottle but … Continue reading →

Posted in food | Tagged beer, Broken Dreams, craft, dublin, ireland, sirens brewing, stout | 1 Comment

Calamari and Pomodorini Pasta: Quick, Easy, Yummy for 10€

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Will Foster

If you’re looking for a quick, easy seafood recipe for pasta here’s how to make Calamari & Pomodirini. You’ll need good linguine pasta, access to fresh squid and optionally a good wine to pair. Prices listed are based in Dublin, … Continue reading →

Posted in food | Tagged cooking, italian cuisine, pasta, recipe, seafood, seathings | Leave a comment

Using KWin with Xfce

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Will Foster

I’ve been a long-time Xfce user as I’ve bounced around any manner of window manager and desktop environment since the turn of the century. I always found 3D effects like viewing all window spaces, and exposé-type features to be useful … Continue reading →

Posted in open source, sysadmin | Tagged desktop linux, kwin, linux, xfce | 11 Comments

Quickly Make Fedora Linux Fonts Glorious

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Will Foster

As a previous user of the now defunct Infinality repo I was looking for something similar in Fedora 26+ and came across this COPR repository. This used to follow the infinality fonts guide but I’ve updated it for recent versions … Continue reading →

Posted in open source | Tagged desktop linux, fedora, font, infinality, linux | Leave a comment

Defending a Hobohouse

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Will Foster

Watch closely as “Knapsack” Willy Jenkins defends a hobohouse against an intruder.

Posted in comedy, sketch, skit | Tagged comedy, funny, hobo, hobohouse, sketch, skit | Leave a comment

Comedy Clubs in Dublin

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Will Foster

Quick Google map of comedy clubs in Dublin, Ireland. Re-posted from Cormac Moore’s site. He goes into good detail on his page, so check out the details there.

Posted in comedy, standup | Tagged comedy, dublin | Leave a comment

Skateboard Promo Video, 1992 – 2001

Posted on August 9, 2015 by Will Foster

When I was really into Skateboarding I made a promo video, with footage shot mostly in NC, VA, SC including a few skateboard parks and contests. This was ripped from VHS to digital so forgive the graininess. My brother filmed … Continue reading →

Posted in life, travel | Tagged contest, promo video, skateboarding, throwback, will foster, will foster skateboarding, will foster's skateboard video | Leave a comment

Automated OpenStack Deployments with Foreman and Puppet

Posted on August 9, 2015 by Will Foster

Demo of a large, 70 node bare-metal deployment we did at the Red Hat Summit in April 2014 showcasing an OpenStack Havana deployment via Puppet and Foreman. There are other tools for this now like StayPuft or most recently RDO-Manager … Continue reading →

Posted in open source, standup | Tagged cloud, foreman, infrastructure, linux, openstack, puppet, sysadmin | 1 Comment

Create OpenStack Users the Easy Way

Posted on August 8, 2015 by Will Foster

When you’ve created more than one OpenStack user via the CLI or Horizon dashboard it gets old really quick. It’s a good idea to automate it or use a tool to do the job for you.

Posted in open source, sysadmin | Tagged automation, cloud, devops, linux, openstack, shell, tool | Leave a comment

Workaround for Foreman-Proxy Scale Issue: DHCPD and lots of VM’s

Posted on August 8, 2015 by Will Foster

Foreman is an awesome provisioning, utility and life-cycle management solution for Linux and UNIX-like server infrastructure. It unifies a lot of things like DHCP, DNS, PXE, and automated provisioning into one tool. Unfortunately we’ve hit some issues with scaling the … Continue reading →