Building Varnish on RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (RHEL4)
We’re switching to Varnish as our reverse proxy service (and leaving mod_proxy under Apache), and as our web frontends still run RHEL4, there was a few small things that crept up while attempting to...
View ArticleUbuntu Natty and Native Linux Spotify –“There is a problem with your sound card”
After updating to the most recent version of Ubuntu, The Natty Narwhal, Spotify decided it didn’t want to play music any longer. The only message in the UI itself was the usual “There is a problem with...
View Articlersyslogd stuck at eating 100% (or more) CPU after upgrading to Ubuntu Natty...
This might also happen after upgrading to maverick, so don’t ignore the explanation even if you’re a version or two behind (.. or reading this at a much later time and we’ve all switched to implants)....
View ArticleGetting Mac OS X-fonts to Work on Windows (Through Ubuntu)
This will be a fairly technical post, so if you’re not in the mood or don’t know what a bash script or Ubuntu is, this might not be the post for you. Useful Ubuntu packages: fontforge (install with...
View ArticleEvolution & Exchange: Unable to retrieve message
Some time after upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10 I ended up with the dreaded “Unable to retrieve message” in Evolution (which I use for Exchange connectivity). This has usually corrected itself by simply...
View ArticleTHIS. CHANGES. EVERYTHING. – Useful Bash/*nix Tricks I Never Stumbled Across...
A thread at /r/linux sought out to reveal all the magic ways of increasing productivity under Linux (or other *nix based OS-es), and as most people I thought that there wouldn’t be much news here. But...
View ArticleBuilding Gearman: cannot find the flags to link with boost thread
While running ./configure things may bail out with the message “cannot find the flags to link with boost thread”. This is cause by configure not being able to find the development version of the...
View Articledpkg: /etc/resolvconf/update-libc.d/sendmail: 7: .: Can’t open...
While apt-get upgrade-ing a server that apparently had bind9 installed, it barfed out complaining about something about sendmail. Weird, as sendmail isn’t installed (at least not any longer), but since...
View Articleslice2php and Ubuntu: /usr/share/slice/Murmur.ice:9: error: Can’t open...
Trying to generate Murmur.php for the server component of Mumble (named Murmur (which is the only place I’ve ever encountered Ice)), slice2php gave the error: /usr/share/slice/Murmur.ice:9: error:...
View ArticleEnabling OpenVPN configuration / autostart on Ubuntu
This assumes that you’ve already made sure that your configuration is valid and is able to connect (you can do this by calling openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/FILENAME.conf directly. It won’t be...
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