SSH via bastion host

A while back I wrote this blog post on the subject of using SSH via bastion hosts.  If you are into this sort of thing, have a look at this blog post by my brother.  He is providing a few more explanations and clarifications, as well as covers a tricky to troubleshoot case with non-default location of your SSH configuration files and keys.

World record of distant landscape photography

If you had to guess, what’s the longest distance between the camera and the object that can be seen in the picture taken by it, how far would you go?  Well, it turns out that the world record is 443 kilometers, which is way more than what I was expecting.  I thought it’d be within the 100 kilometers.  But 443 is crazy!  Here’s the map that shows a different perspective.

Markdown Here – a browser extension for quick Markdown

Markdown Here Screenshot.

Markdown Here is a browser extension (for all sorts of browsers too) that enables quick and easy rendering of the Markdown text into the HTML.  This works well in a number of scenarios – Gmail email composition, WordPress post editing, and a few other.

SystemD strikes again : Unit X.mount is bound to inactive unit

My brother is blogging about a really weird issue we had today.  Apparently, the old school approach of working with disk volumes, and mounting them is not enough anymore.  These days, systemd is responsible for part of that workflow and it can bite you in the behind if you are not careful.

Solution: run “systemctl daemon-reload” whenever you edit /etc/fstab.

Run boy run! This world is not made for you …