Monthly Archives: March 2008

Firefox 3 and howtoforge.com

March 19, 2008 – 12:07 pm

There is currently a bug in firefox 3 which causes it to crash with an XError BadAloc when you go to any page hosted on howtoforge. This seems to be related to the image at http://howtoforge.com/themes/htf_glass/images/bg_header_bottom_left15.png. I suggest you don’t click on that link Apparently this image is 10,000 pixels wide. It looks like this [...]

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Puppet, Facts and Certificates

March 13, 2008 – 1:14 pm

I’m currently setting up Puppet at Vquence so that, among other things, we can deploy hosts into Amazon EC2 more easily. To ensure a minimum setup time on a new server I wanted the setup to be as simple as echo ‘DAEMON_OPTS=”-w 120 –fqdn newserver.vquence.com –server puppetmaster.vquence.com” > /etc/default/puppet aptitude install puppet This means that [...]

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