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		<title>Linux Australia – President’s Report August 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been just over a month since my last presidents report, which according to past presidents means that I’m doing well. Apparently the first report is the easy one, maintaining momentum is the key! LCA2011 We are now well and truly into the run up to linux,conf.au 2011. The LCA Call for Papers, Miniconfs, Posters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inodes.org/2010/08/14/linux-australia-presidents-report-august-2010/</link>
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		<title>Linux Australia &#8211; President&#8217;s Report July 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been about 6 months since the current Linux Australia Council was voted in, and about a month since I became President, following James Turnbull’s resignation. In that time, the Council has been working on implementing the platform that we ran on. We have successfully managed to hold a Council meeting every fortnight (with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inodes.org/2010/07/08/linux-australia-presidents-report-july-2010/</link>
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		<title>Devops Down Under 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be at Devops Down Under this weekend. This should be an amazing weekend, filled with talks which aim to help bridge the Developer and Sysadmin divide. I&#8217;ll be giving a presentation entitiled Commit early, Deploy often. I&#8217;ll be talking about using package management to empower developers to deploy applications locally just as they would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inodes.org/2010/04/29/devops-down-under-2010/</link>
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		<title>Taking your cucumber tests back to the future with Delorean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently working on an API for Vquence&#8217;s VQdata product which allows our customers to use a REST interface to retrieve videos with certain keywords they have previously stored. While writing tests I need to be able to mock out the Time object so that my tests were deterministic relative to time. I remembered listening [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inodes.org/2010/03/31/taking-your-cucumber-tests-back-to-the-future-with-delorean/</link>
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		<title>Careful what you call your server!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was setting up a server recently and I was using KVM to virtualise a whole lot of hosts. Being fairly unimaginative I decided to call the machine kvm. As usual I used LVM for the disks. Now on Ubuntu this means that by default the VG will be called the same as the host [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inodes.org/2010/03/01/careful-what-you-call-your-server/</link>
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		<title>Less is more for ISOs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was tidying up some data recently and found a couple of ISO images lying around with cryptic file names. I didn&#8217;t have cdinfo installed, so I though I&#8217;d run less hoping that the binary data would have some useful text in it. Instead I was surprised to see the following: CD-ROM is in ISO [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inodes.org/2010/01/28/less-is-more-for-isos/</link>
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		<title>Linux Australia Elections, Last chance to vote!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t done so, please go and vote in the Linux Australia elections. If you aren&#8217;t a member then just join first, membership is free. I&#8217;m running for the position of Treasurer, but you don&#8217;t need to vote for me since I&#8217;m running unopposed. I&#8217;m running on a common platform with a group of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inodes.org/2010/01/10/linux-australia-elections-last-chance-to-vote/</link>
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		<title>Adding multiple database support to Cucumber</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Vqmetrics application needs to connect to two different databases. The first holds the videos, authors and their relevant statistics, while the second database holds the users, monitors and trackers. We do this by specifying two databases in config/database.yml. development: database: vqmetrics_devel &#60; &#60;: *login_dev_local &#160; vqdata_development: &#38;VQDATA_TEST database: vqdata_devel &#60;&#60;: *login_dev_local So by default [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inodes.org/2009/10/08/adding-multiple-database-support-to-cucumber/</link>
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		<title>rm -rf /usr/lib</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So in another case of tab completion gone wrong I ended up staring at the following on my laptop. johnf@zoot:~/dev/vquence/metrics/trunk$ sudo rm -rf /usr/lib ^C The command only ran for a few seconds so the damage wasn&#8217;t to bad, but what did I lose? The locate command came to my rescue. locate runs out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inodes.org/2009/09/15/rm-rf-usrlib/</link>
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		<title>Building a Private PPA on Ubuntu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I love about the Ubuntu project and launchpad is the Personal Package Archive. PPAs make it so simple and easy to backport packages. The only problem with PPAs is that they are public. I had a need to be able to host some private internal packages as well as squid with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://inodes.org/2009/09/14/building-a-private-ppa-on-ubuntu/</link>
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