A few weeks ago, I listened to the
Changelog Podcast
episode featuring Chris Forsythe, lead of the Growl project. I
actually don’tWdidn’t use Growl for a long time, because I really
disliked notifications of any kind, as they are distractin…
Reminder: this blog reflects my opinions and thoughts, and not
those of my employer, Opscode, Inc.
Like any good sysadmin, I have my own domain for email and other
purposes. I actually have had a couple, but this post is about my
current one. I origin…
This is a repost of my article earlier posted at Jordan Sissel’s awesome SysAdvent
After years of working in Java-based environments, there are a number of things that I like to implement together with the teams I`m working with – the application does…
I was pleased to read this link on the excellent MySQL Performance Blog.
I was playing around with Ubuntu 11.10 the other day, to explore some of the
changes that have happened to Ruby lately, and thought I’d share my findings.
First off, there are still Ruby 1.8(.7p352) packages. This is the
default you get with the…
I have to infrequently add new drives to Dell RAID arrays like H700. For some reason it takes me couple searches to find the info so here so I can find it later. List all drives /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -PDList -aALL Create a RAID array (e.g. RAID 0) /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 -CfgLdAdd -r0 [32:4, 32:5] -aALL List working RAID [...]
Over the past 20 years, I always had a Windows (or DOS!) PC as the
main system I use at home. The primary purpose was for gaming,
although building my own systems is also a hobby. In 2007, I wanted to
build a new system to use as a home theater PC. Ori…
Mount the Recovery Partition as described here.
Download and run Unibeast, as described here.
I love OpenVZ, I think its one of the easiest to use virtualisation technologies on the market and it adds almost no overhead compared to other technologies.
I’ve been using it for a couple of years now and I always wanted to have a nicer way to…
Before I start, I’ll admit that I’m not a real RPM packager. Maype
I’m approaching this from completely the wrong direction, what do I
know?
I’m in the process of packaging Varnish 3.0.2 which includes mangling
the spec file. The top of the spec fil…
