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  • Big Sur DDJ 1000 Driver Update

    Big Sur DDJ 1000 Driver Update

    Currently the Mac Audio Driver for Pioneer’s Rekordbox fails to install on Big Sur. This is because Big Sur has upgraded to perl 5.28, which restricts the way it reads files. See Error’s below on this. The good news is that your system should also include perl 5.18. However it’s difficult to change versions, without…

    alex

    January 17, 2021
    DDJ-1000, Developing, Music, Shell
    big sur, DDJ-1000, perl, pieoneer, rekordbox
  • Softlinks in Synology

    Softlinks in Synology

    The FileStation UI will not let you create a softlink. You will only be able to create “shortcuts,” which are either under favorites, or desktop. However, since Synology is basically an Alpine based Linux System, it is simple to log into the box through SSH and create a symlink using the command: This will easily…

    alex

    January 5, 2021
    Developing, Shell, Synology
    alpine, bind, FileStation, fstab, linux, mount, softlink, Synology
  • Monitoring a Synology Filesystem with AWS SQS

    Monitoring a Synology Filesystem with AWS SQS

    Use Case I would like to monitor events from a Synology NFS mount on another system. Solution Python module to monitor and forward filesystem events to an AWS SQS queue, that my external system can monitor and act upon Install Python 3 on Synology To do this, visit the Synology Package Center, search for “python”…

    alex

    December 23, 2020
    AWS, Developing, Python, SQS
    AWS, nas, nfs, Python, python3, queue, SQS, Synology
  • $b Contracts Distribution

    $b Contracts Distribution

    07/20 Contract Distribution snapshot, of stocks with more than $1B in outstanding contracts Row Labels CALL PUT Grand Total AAPL  8B  1B  9B AMZN  12B  1B  12B FB  1B  0B  2B MSFT  2B  0B  2B QQQ  2B  1B  3B SPY  4B  2B  6B TSLA  11B  1B  12B Grand Total  40B  5B  46B Call/Put Distribution of…

    alex

    July 21, 2020
    Uncategorized
    aapl, amzn, fb, msft, qqq, spy, tsla
  • 49″ Widescreen Monitors

    49″ Widescreen Monitors

    Can’t live without your dual screen? Try one of these 49″ Ultra Widescreen Monitors on for size: Samsung CHG 90, or DELL Ultra Sharp, Ultra Widescreen, 49″ Monitor. In January, I decided to pick up the Samsung CHG 90. An Ultra Widescreen, 49″ freesync monitor to replace my dual screen monitors. At first I was…

    alex

    March 5, 2019
    Uncategorized
    5k, chg90, Dell, freesync, home office, monitor, samsung, U4919DW, ultra widescreen
  • Disabling the Master Realm

    Disabling the Master Realm

    One of the recommendations from Keycloak, is to limit the access to the master realm, or use the system without it. However, before we do so, you must first ensure that your other realms has an administrator that can manage it. After which, we can safely disable the Master realm and manage our secondary realms…

    alex

    February 20, 2019
    AIS, Java, Uncategorized
    Administration, AIS, alfresco, Keycloak, master realm, re-enable master realm
  • Keeping passwords out

    Keeping passwords out

    Most development projects rely on protected, external resources, such as databases, or rest services; and many times, for the sake of simplified testing, we add those credentials to our configuration files, which, if accidentally leaks to the wrong person, can become a painful and expensive issue. In this article, I will demonstrate how to avoid…

    alex

    October 19, 2018
    Developing, Java, Linux, Uncategorized
    AWS, credstash, development, hashicorp vault, Java, lastpass, Maven, passwords, secretsmanager, Security
  • An Apache Zeppelin Test with Google Sheets

    An Apache Zeppelin Test with Google Sheets

    A 5min POC using google sheets in Zeppelin. Testing how easy it would be to drop data into a spreadsheet, then analyze it using Zeppelin. First go into https://docs.google.com and create a new spreadsheet, which would be used for collecting your data. Alternatively, my copy of bank.csv, which is used in this example, can be…

    alex

    September 28, 2018
    Developing, Java, Uncategorized
    apache zeppelin, docker, google sheets
  • User Synchronization in APS from Keycloak

    User Synchronization in APS from Keycloak

    TL;DR : Using keycloak as an IDM or LDAP Domain Aggregator Download the APS Identity Sync Extension: https://github.com/alex4u2nv/aps-ais-authority-sync/releases/download/v1.0.0/aps-identity-sync-java-1.0.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar Configure APS to Integrate with Keycloak as in the example activiti-identity-service.properties Configure Keycloak to integrate with multiple LDAP domains via User Federation service. Authenticate into APS using users that were synchronized. If Keycloak authentication is enabled, then authenticate…

    alex

    August 27, 2018
    AIS, Alfresco, APS, Authentication, Developing, Java, Systems, Workflow
    Activiti, ads, AIS, apache directory studio, APS, docker, docker-compose, Group Provisioning, IDM, IDP, Keycloak, LDAP, Multi-Domain, openldap, User Provisioning
  • How to get Docker Vault going in no time

    How to get Docker Vault going in no time

    Quick Steps Walkthrough This walk through is targeted for audiences who are new to Vault, or dev ops who just need an API to develop auto deployment scripts against. A production environment should be installed and operated by a Hashicorp Vault expert. Pull and Run Pull the docker image and run it in the foreground…

    alex

    May 29, 2018
    Containers, Developing, Infrastructure, Java, Linux, Security, Shell, Systems
    docker, hashicorp, password, password protection, system delivery, vault
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