Puppet on Ubuntu 10.04
Yesterday I decided that it’s about time to learn Puppet. I’ve had my eye on both Puppet and Chef for some time now. Yesterday after reading this Quora-thread and this blog-post, I …
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I'm quoted in the December-issue of Computerworld
It’s always fun when magazines ask you for your advise. In the December-issue of Computerworld, I was interviewed by Bob Scheier in the cover story and talked about how to create …
This really bugs me...
If you’ve ever tried to install ImageMagick on FreeBSD, you’ve probably run into this issue too. You have a head-less box in some datacenter, you don’t want to bloat the machine …
How to use Virtio on FreeBSD 8.2+
In the past few years, virtualization has been the big topic everybody keeps talking about. There are good reasons for that, but one thing that really annoys me as a hardcore …
How to get 50% discount on Swisscom's hotspot (and possibly also others)
Last weekend I was staying at a Holiday Inn in the UK. As most geeks, one of the first thing I did after checking in was to hop on the wireless connection to pull down my email. …
Facebook knows exactly how many visitors you got on your site
Is it possible that Facebook know more about how many visitors a given website has than Alexa or Hitwise? I’m not talking about people sharing a link on Facebook and then tracking …
Quick and dirty way of fixing NUT on pfSense 2.0RC
One of my favorite Open Source appliances is pfSense. It can turn any old machine into a very powerful firewall/router in 10 minutes or less. Also, it comes with a very handy GUI …
Fixing "su: unknown login: %%PG_USER%%" on FreeBSD
Today as I was installing PostgreSQL 9.04 on a new server I encountered the following error: \[root@host ~\]# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql initdb su: unknown login: %%PG_USER%% …
Did you know you can create encrypted partitions in OS X Lion?
The most exciting new feature in OS X Lion for all paranoid techies out there was the introduction of full-disk encryption (FileVault 2). The previous version of FileVault only …
How to upgrade from Mac OS X Lion GM to Final release
If you ran one of the beta releases of Mac OS X Lion, you probably ran into a problem when trying to upgrade to the final release of OS X Lion. When I tried to upgrade one of my …
Rebuilding a Linux software RAID array
The process is pretty straight forward, and I’m writing this as a ‘Note-to-self’ for future references than anything else. If anyone else find it useful, that’s great. Identify the …
Save time (and keystrokes) in the terminal
Do you have a few long commands that you keep typing in the terminal? Things like ‘cd /some/long/path/that/takes/forever/to/type’ or ‘mycommand -with -lots -of -variables’? If so, …