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Cisco HSRP Standby over a /30 or 255.255.255.252 subnet
I wanted to blog about this because finding information on it is fraught with "Doesn't work", "not possible" or "no reply ( Read more... ) -
Linux.conf.au 2007
Unfortunately, my paper for Linux.conf.au (on Avahi) was rejected, it's a bit of a shame given that (following last year) Avahi is now available in many distros, notably Fedora Core 5 seems to ship it and so will Ubuntu Edgy shortly - meaning more people are aware of it and may have been interested ( Read more... ) -
Avahi becoming more ubiquitous
I work at a co-location company (HostAway - http://www.hostaway.net.au/)
Just had a customer in installed Fedora Core 5 on their server today and much to my surprise when it rebooted...
"Starting Avahi daemon.... [OK]" -
Rails Recipes
In my continued learning and use of Ruby on Rails I have just purchased the PDF & hardcopy version of "Rails Recipies" by Chad Fowler
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Ruby, sweet sweet ruby...
So I've been actually using ruby lately, not just with Ruby on Rails and I really like it.
It has some nice syntax, today I wrote a script for Bur.st to manage the addition/change/removal of domains on the server - specifically it needs to handle an apache2 config, whether to turn PHP on or not, primary and secondary MX and also primary and ( Read more... ) -
New PC...
So, I got sick of my rather slow laptops, and have recently shelled out a fair bit of money for a nice new fast PC...
* Asus A8N-SLI-Premium Mainboard
* AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (Dual Core 2.2GHz)
* 2GB (2x1GB) Mushkin UCCC DDR400 Ram
* Logitech MX-3100 Keyboard & Mouse
* Dual SLI Nvidia GeForce 6800GS (PCI-E)
* Antec TruePower 2.0 480W Power ( Read more... ) -
Avahi now supports static host mappings!
Tonight, I spent a few hours implementing static host mappings for Avahi, which Ross Burton will be happy about ( Read more... ) -
Magical Postfix Virtual Domains & Mailman
Since google helped me very little in tracking this down, I'm going to blog about it in the hopes it will save someone else pain :)
If you are trying to use a virtual domain with the postfix mailman transport to do mailman lists in a nice way, there is a bug in the pre-configured transport of postfix in Ubuntu Breezy (see debian bug 315939 that ( Read more... ) -
Hehe...
16:38 < RedEar-away> is pyqt a cheaper way to build commercial close-sourced qt apps?
16:38 < RedEar-away> or does it only build executables where you must provide the source code (due to GPL)? -
The "cool" things... and the not so cool.
So, I thought I would go through and detail a number of the features in KDE I really love and find usefull, as well as detailing a number of the problems I've found.
Cool Things
- Spell checking in * (Konqueror, Kopete)This is really awesome, Konqeuror (web browser+) and Kopete (instant messanger) have in-line spell checking, in text areas, anything ( Read more... )