Gustavo's Blog

 Simple base image update to alpine 3.15.1, no other changes.

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2022/03/updated-transmission-image.html

My recent patch fixing a crash (undefined var) on anilist plugin of flexget when yuna.moe is unreachable has been merged. It's included on flexget 3.3.1 and on my docker image grmontesino/flexget...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2022/02/flexget-and-finance-quote.html

The first time you try to ssh to a remote server from WSL over a VPN connection, there's a good chance the connection will hang as soon as you start using it. After a little testing you may notic...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2022/02/wsl-tricks-part-2-vpn-and-mtu-setting.html

Just released my images for burp on github . This is a somewhat more complex stack with 4 images - base, server, client and web user interface - and a bit more of scripting on the entrypoints to...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2022/02/docker-image-burp-backup-and-restore.html

For a long time I've been using a very simple setup on Windows to manage Linux servers: just plain old putty, pageant, winscp and the like. With the recent implementation and advances on WSL, I f...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2022/02/wsl-tricks-part-1-windows-openssh-key.html

Recently sent a pull request for the inclusion of the Tesouro Direto module on finance-quote , which is the library used by gnucash for "commodities" quotes. If that goes well I might be sending...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2022/02/finance-quote-development-and-tesouro.html

Released docker-flexget 3.2.18-i1 yesterday.  Simple update to keep up with upstream (which already includes my smallish patch to fix some problems introduced to anilist client on 3.2.5).

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2022/02/docker-flexget-3218-i1.html

I've recently had some fun with a BTRFS filesystem corruption (described in a gist here ). Ended up with the recovered data in a linear LV formed by 2 non-redundant PVs. After all needed checks...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2022/02/incremental-pvmove.html

After some time around non-native languages, something which you'll notice is that they've what seem like "traps" designed to make confusion and/or cause miscommunications.  I guess our native...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2022/02/yuube-last-night-evening.html

 Hello, Just a quick note that I've published (after some cleanup and improvements) the docker images I use for transmission (bittorrent client) and flexget (media management automation). The ...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2022/02/docker-images-transmission-and-flexget.html

Just found out this blog still exists and had some fun reading the posts from 10+ years ago... Some things changed so much, others are still exactly the same... Maybe I can find some inspiratio...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2022/01/i-am-back.html

Blood and Gold is yet another book in Anne Rice 's Vampire Chronicles . There, an old vampire named Thorne wakes from his long sleep and is greeted by Marius, which tells his history: how he was ...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2009/02/book-blood-and-gold.html

I've been to Campos do Jordão, a well-know tourist city, to pass a small honeymoon (my weeding was at Nov 21st last year, which explains in part the lack of posts on this blog for some months :P...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2009/02/travel-campos-do-jordao.html

Tomorrow will be Friday 13th. To make this the coolest friday 13th ever, at 23:31:30 UTC (in São Paulo daylight savings time that would be 21:31:30), Unix Time1 will be "1234567890". Cool, isn't...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2009/02/friday-13th-unix-time-1234567890.html

I've had a pleasant surprise yesterday: The people at Panini have included some colored pages in Bleach 19. AFAIK1, this was the first manga released on Brazil with colored pages. thumbs up ^_^ ...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2009/02/manga-bleach-19-with-colored-pages.html

It's easier to be an asshole to words than to people Courtesy of xkcd (#438 )

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2008/11/stuff-to-keep-in-mind-part-1.html

We have acquired a new HP Laserjet P3005d printer at work some months ago, to replace an aging HP laserjet 2300dn which was consistently jamming on duplex jobs. The new printer just doesn't feel ...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2008/09/hp-laserjet-p3005d.html

The 2009 trainee's program of the multinational Unilever are open. As I've graduated recently, and heard some people say very good things about employment there, I've decided to apply myself. W...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-not-make-web-form.html

I've finally graduated from college course recently (something like a month ago, actually). I've made a four year technological graduation course on Data Processing at the São Paulo campus of FA...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2008/07/college-finished.html

About two hours ago, there was an accident in São Paulo's Barra Funda Metro Station. I can't say I really know what happened, but it seems that an user (a women apparently) fell on the rails and...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2008/06/accident-at-barra-funda-metro-station.html

THE BAD: When I got to work today, I've found our server (white box with Debian etch responsible for networking, files, printers, etc) powered off - most likely the UPS' battery didn't survive a...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2008/06/hardware-failures.html

Last week I've got the portuguese translated version of the The Servant book (the title was adapted to O Monge e o Executivo, which would translate back to The Monk and the Executive). The book...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2008/06/book-servant.html

Volumes: 21 (original size) Rating: A Strong points: Character depth, useful life lessons Weak points: Drawing could be better, some times it's hard to identify the characters Karekano is a ...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2008/06/manga-karekano.html

Earlier today I've migrated all the data from a 80 GB HD to a new one of 250 GB. It was a pleasing surprise to see how far the support for these kinds of things have gone. The old HD had 4 part...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2008/05/moving-and-resizing-partitions.html

I've been getting more and more irritated by a trend which seems to be developing down there on Brazil (and in particular São Paulo): People have children and don't take care of them; allowing t...

http://grmontesino.blogspot.com/2008/05/notice-to-parents-please-take-care-of.html