Lucid Electric Dreams

After installing a fresh copy of Fedora 22, I discovered that I could not install any packages due to a faulty mirror. DNF, the new package ...

I recently came across the " No FileSystem for scheme: hdfs " error from a Scala application that I wrote to work with some HDFS f...

This is a quick snippet saved for posterity so that I won't have to pull my hair out the next time I run into this issue. To reduce the...

DNSCrypt is a free service by OpenDNS that provides encrypted DNS lookups. If you are concerned about man-in-the-middle attacks, data collec...

If you need to transfer several gigabytes of data between your computer and the Nexus 7 tablet, the fastest option is to mount the N7 as a M...

This is a write-up of the process I recently went through with a sysadmin colleague to recover from a crippling Cassandra failure that threa...

Powerline-bash is a cool python script that changes your bash prompt depending on the context. For example: if you are on a git directory, t...