How to build Apache and mod_wsgi with Python 2.7 on FreeBSD
We’re probably not the only company switching to Python 2.7. Right now, we’re in the final phase of rolling out an updated version that uses Python 2.7. As I was setting up our …
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How to get RabbitMQ 1.8 to work on FreeBSD
Update: Thanks to Phillip (the maintainer of the package), this issue has now been resolved for RabbitMQ 2.0. The instructions below still applies if you for some reason prefer to …
Shouldn't dependencies of core components be isolated?
Local management tools are critical for most Linux and Unix distributions. For instance, if you delete Python 2.6 from your Ubuntu installation, it becomes more or less unusable. …
Solution for "[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/nonexistent'" in mod_wsgi
While upgrading to Python 2.7 on one of our development servers (FreeBSD 7.2), I ran across a somewhat strange error with Django (or rather mod_wsgi). Since I didn’t find a whole …
Can VirtualBox take on VMware for SMBs?
My experience with VMware goes way back. I think the first version I ever used was VMware Workstation 4.0 back in ’03. That’s seven years ago. Back then it was really cool as a …
How monkeys mirror human irrationality
I watched a really interesting TED-talk last night that I wanted to share with all of you. It’s on the topic of human irrationality and how it is mirrored in monkeys. The verdict …
How to avoid monthly service fees with Wells Fargo (Business and Personal)
I will rant a bit about how pathetic the U.S. banks are, so if you don’t want to read about that, jump down to ‘End Rant.’ Rant Banks in the US are kind of like the movie industry. …
Create a lightweight intranet search engine with Xapian on FreeBSD
Recently I had to set up an intranet search engine to crawl trough thousands of PDF files. There are a ton of commercial solutions (read: $$$$ ) out there on the market, ranging …
Amazon S3/Jungle Disk as your home NAS?
This idea hit me this morning. Assuming you have a decent connection at home (not ADSL or Cable that is), Amazon S3 (or Jungle Disk) makes a pretty nice back-bone for a home NAS. …
How to backup to S3 with GnuPG (PGP) without having to store the passphrase locally
To increase the reliability of our backups at WireLoad, we wanted to utilize S3. Obviously we couldn’t just send our backups to S3 without encrypting them, so GnuPG was part of the …
Chronicle.IM is almost ready...
Last night we rolled out a new version of Chronicle.IM to the production servers. The product is not quite ready yet, but you can sign up with your email address if you want to be …
Monitor Nginx and disk-usage with Monit
Yesterday I posted an article on how to monitor Apache and PostgreSQL with Monit. After setting that up I was amazed how simple and flexible Monit was, so I moved on with two more …