According to the official website https://microk8s.io/, MicroK8s is a low-ops, minimal production Kubernetes for dev, cloud, cluster, workstations, Edge, and IoT. It is according to the documentation the smallest, fastest, fully-conformant Kubernetes that tracks upstream releases and makes clustering trivial. It is maintained by Canonical the company behind Ubuntu. Installing microk8s on Mac OS X […]
Recently, I was asked by a customer to help recovering a password of a VeraCrypt encrypted volume they lost access to. I did not wanted to fire a password cracking software like JohnTheRipper or HashCat with brute force attack because that should always be the last resort. The recommended approach for this particular case is […]
تلقي السلطة السورية اللّوم في انهيار سعر صرف الليرة والتضخم على العقوبات أحادية الجانب. الحقيقة هي أن السلطة السورية تعاملت مع احتجاجات عام 2011 بشكل غير حكيم وقصير النظر كلّف الاقتصاد السوري أكثر من طاقته وكلّف رصيد سوريا من العلاقات الدولية أكثر مما تطيق. يدفع السوريون والسوريات ثمن أخطاء السلطة وسياساتها قصيرة النظر منذ 9 سنوات. 6 […]
The COVID-19 disease is one of the most serious epidemic outbreaks in modern history. Unless drastic measures are taken, by governments, organisations and individuals, it is going to be a global pandemic with serious consequences on people, economy and societies around the world. We should all take COVID-19 seriously.
Have you ran into problems after Homebrew upgrade? If you are a Homebrew user on Mac OS X, you might have faced problems after starting a Homebrew upgrade. If you could review the upgrade log, you might find what went wrong and which configuration and commands you still need to do to get everything working […]
نيرون” قصيدة من قصائدي المفضلّة للشاعر والكاتب خليل مطران، شاعر القطرين الذي ولد في لبنان عام1872 وغادرها إلى باريس ليدرس الأدب الغربي ثم عاد إلى مصر حيث قضى معظم سنوات حياته مبدعا أدبا وشعرا وفكرا. دعا مطران وعدد من معاصريه من الأدباء للتجديد في أغراض اللغة والأدب والشعر لإخراجها من أغراضها التقليدية لكي لتناسب مع […]
RedNotebook by Jendrik Seipp is one of my favourite free open-source multi-platforms applications. It is a digital version of the good old lab notebook, that is usually red, and that is often used by scientists and researchers in labs around the world. It can be used to log experiment results, to take meeting notes, to […]
After running brew update; brew upgrade, brew updated python to version 3.7.x.x. When my code stopped working, I noticed that some of the 3rd party packages i use are not compatible Python 3.7.x.x yet. So i decided to revert to Python 3.6.5_1 the version that i am certain i will not have any troubles with. […]
If you are familiar with bash, but not familiar with the Mac OS X environment, then keep reading, this blog post is for you. If you are using your Mac to do some serious software development, or if you would like to use your Mac to perform several IT administration tasks, you might want to […]
If you are running an VPN-server to circumvent censorship, or browse securely while connected to a public wifi network, you will have at some point to consider server VPN on port 443, the standard port for HTTPS, which is very unlikely to be blocked by ISPs. But what if you wanted to server a secure […]