Printing

Probably like many amongst us the time of the Christmas holidays is perfect to get some IT related stuff back on track. I used to have a print server setup which got broken over time and I didn't found the energy to invest time into fixing it. But the pressure became higher and higher. 111 From both my wife and daughter, especially during the holidays where the wife want to use it to print out tickets and the daughter want to print out color plates..

So during one of the evenings I pulled myself together and installed ArchLinux ARM …

bumping into the case where once deployed a full stack application we don't have any direct connection due to no uplink for security reasons.

So we (you too @Tom) looked into a way to export the prometheus data into a tar.gz which could be transferred and imported into an instance on our local machine.

After the initial blog post where we created a tar.gz file from the prometheus storage.tsdb.path on the filesystem @roidelapluie pointed me out about the snapshot feature.

So we did a bit of research and came up with this new procedure.

First of …

It isn't supported by default using Ubuntu but it's as handy as hell, the apple infrared remote control. After some mayor headaches I finally succeeded to configure it manually on my MacBook Pro 3.1 running Ubuntu 10.04.

It's quite easy once you know how.

Installation of the lirc library:

$ sudo apt-get install lirc

Adapting the configuration files (make sure to backup them first!):

$ sudo cp /old/file /new/file.bak

/etc/lirc/hardware.conf

# /etc/lirc/hardware.conf # #Chosen Remote Control REMOTE="Apple Mac mini USB IR Receiver" REMOTE_MODULES="uinput" REMOTE_DRIVER="macmini" REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/usb/hiddev0" REMOTE_SOCKET="" REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF …