It’s almost becoming a series about UTM, my quest of finding replacements for tooling I used on my Intel based MacBook Pro. This time a little article about how I’m using UTM as a replacement for my usage of Vagrant.
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Using Rosette with UTM and Docker
When buying a new laptop I settled for a MacBook Pro with a M2 processor. As I was used to an Intel based MacBook Pro with virtual machines and Docker containers I keep searching for replacements for the functionality I was used to. Earlier I’ve written a blog post about running an Oracle Database on the M2 MacBook pro, this time I’d like to talk about using x86 based containers.
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As I am an Oracle consultant I sometimes want to try things on a local instance. My normal way of working is to fire up a virtual machine or docker instance with the Oracle database and try the things I want to try.
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With the newer versions of macOS the Wifi of your MacBook is being enabled automatically when the laptop is being restarted. This might not be something you want.
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Starting with macOS Ventura, Apple in all its wisdom seems to have removed the scheduling possibilities for sleeping and waking your MacBook from the power options.
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In my quest to save on electricity I detected my TV set was using quite some energy while “Sleeping”. It turned out it wasn’t sleeping the whole time, waking every x minutes trying to get to the internet (it’s not allowed to) for a few minutes and then going back to sleep.
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Sometimes you want to use a USB serial device at a different location of where it is “plugged in”. With two tools (ser2net and socat) this is quite easy to do.
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In a previous post (Passing serial port to unprivileged container) I needed to create an udev rule to adjust the permissions on a serial port I wanted to pass through to a container. How did I come up with the values needed in the rule?
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I make use of Proxmox and sometimes you need to use an external device within a LXC container. This article describes howto pass a serial port to the container, but the procedure is the same for any device.
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Just a small techtip
Sometimes you want to export table data. SQLDeveloper can help you with that with a few formats which are built-in and are callable via a simple hint within your SQL statement.
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