Hacks
Firefox 3 and howtoforge.com
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…
Blog
Sysadmin
Puppet, Facts and Certificates
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…
Sysadmin
Amazon EC2 ruby gem and large user_data
When you create an instance in EC2 you can send Amazon some user data that is accessible by your instance. At Vquence we use this to send a script that gets…
FOSS
EC2UI extension for Firefox 3
I've been doing some work with Amazon EC2 the last few days. An invaluable tool is the EC2UI firefox extension that Amazon have written. This provides you with…
FOSS
Vim and spell checking
I just discovered Vim has spell checking. No more having to manually spell check in mutt with ispell when writing emails, Hurray!! In your .vimrc file simply…
Sysadmin
Squid and Rails caching
At Vquence our Rails setup looks something like this. (Who needs Inkscape when you have ASCII art) This infrastructure is hosted in the US and up until…
General
Google Analytics new tracking code
As I was setting up a new site in Google Analytics today I discovered that there is now new tracking code you are supposed to use. The old code is now…
Programming
Rails, ActiveRecord, MySQL, GUIDs and the rename_column bug
Since I wasted over 4 hours of my life today working my way through this problem I feel the need to share. Since it seems to be the in thing in the Web 2.0…
Sysadmin
Elastix and VMware
Took the plunge today to update my asterisk server. I've been using asterisk for about 5 years now and am pretty adept and manipulating its cryptic…
FOSS
linux.conf.au 2008 selling out
It's 15:11pm and there are only 11 tickets left for linux.conf.au. WARNING: If you have registered but haven't gotten around to paying yet then you are going…