Author Archives: George Valentin Voina

#RaspberryPI as portable #NetFlix media player

By | February 5, 2020

Running NetFlix on a Raspberry Pi is a fantastic way to carry your Netflix account with you in a light mode way without relying on a laptop or entering your credentials on unknown insecure terminals. You need: – a Raspberry PI – preferably with head radiators or better already equipped with a with a fan.… Read More »

Monitoring @ubnt based home network with @UNMS and @UnifiController with @Docker

By | February 2, 2018

I upgraded my personal network with another Ubiquiti device, this time a “UniFi AP-AC-Pro”. The sad part is that to get all the features, like extra control and statistics you need to install a Unifi Controller Software. I hate the idea of network software running on a Windows desktop so I tried to find a… Read More »

Bad #mobile data #infrastructure generates Frankenstein solutions

By | January 31, 2018

This product Zifilink is so weird that I am doing free advertisement for it. This is what happens when there are lots of mobile providers in a market and all have shitty mobile data signal. I present you the “make your own mobile gigabit” with a dongle Frankenstein tree 🙂 Come on ! look at… Read More »

#ubnt made my Holiday better.

By | January 31, 2018

I hate when you go on Holiday outside EU and your internet sucks and data roaming charges would cover Mars roaming. Lucky for me this is what I noticed in my nice Mauritius Holiday, they discovered Ubiquity devices 🙂 I think I counted like 20 UBNT Wi-Fi repeaters throughout the resort, in the palm trees.… Read More »

IT Traveller: #Failed airport #technology (Istambul)

By | January 11, 2018

I travel quite often across the world for job related purposes. Being an IT guy that does servers installations, develops and deploys enterprise software across the world I am always noticing everything that is IT related. It is always fun to see failed tech in airports I transit or in hotels where I stay. This… Read More »

#WordPress weather map plugin attack detected in #wordfence live traffic

By | January 10, 2018

Going through my Wordfence live traffic view is a nice way to see the daily fad of Chinese script kiddies. WordPress is one of the main targets of people trying to access your data. Obviously if you have a blog you must be sure you run an A+ certified security setup. See my other posts… Read More »

Map #Docker container ports to virtual IPs in Linux with docker-compose

By | February 15, 2018

Sometimes you need to export multiple instances of the same service with a specific IP using same port outside of a docker swarm environment. Using docker swarm environment is easy to have several instances of the same service exporting some API on the same port. The swarm will take care of load balancing the services… Read More »

Using temporary indices to optimize DELETE operations on big tables in #DB2

By | December 18, 2019

DELETE operations are much faster in case we disable constraints. This is because not all foreign keys affected by the DELETE are indexed. We have to detect all the foreign keys that point to the table from where you delete data. The we can create temporary indices to help speed up the delete. STEP 1.… Read More »