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...

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...

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. This is...

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...

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...

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...

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.’

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...

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...

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...