OK, so I might have been a bit hasty to dismiss Centos in my last post – a couple of people have contacted me and told me about additional repos that I can use for rubygems etc – so as a brief interlude, here’s the instructions for getting MCollective and ActiveMQ up and running on [...]
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A few weeks ago I was at UKUUG and met an intriguing project (and it’s owner) called mcollective. MCollective is a system that enables you to run queries across multiple servers in real time and have the responses come back to you in a speed you would only expect if you were physically at the [...]
There are a few dependencies that need to be installed before cucumber-nagios will work correctly: Install RubyGems from source. Trust me, you’ll thank me for this later install ruby, irb, rdoc and ruby-dev from Apt using your favourite package manager install libxslt-dev, libxslt-ruby and libopenssl-ruby from Apt install cucumber-nagios using GEM And that’s about it…
OK, so I’m not the first to blog about this, however I’m using cobbler and puppet to automate the creation of VMs on my laptop for testing/staging purposes so I thought I’d blog about it here. The aim is to use Cobbler to setup the base operating system and install puppet, then let Puppet take [...]
Just a quick post… In the last two parts of this series I stated I’d be using Ethernet over Powerline (aka HomePlug) as the backbone for my media system. I currently own two 14Mbps units and tests have rapidly shown that this is nowhere near good enough. Looks like I’ll have to upgrade to the [...]
In part one of this series, I outlined LinuxMCE and how amazing it was providing Home Cinema, VoIP Telephony, CCTV and home automation in one system for the price of a download and a few hours work. This article will help those who, like me, live in rented accomodation or cannot ask their local electrician [...]
I’ve been playing around with Home Automation and trying to get my audio/video around the house without honey-combing the walls for the last few years with varying degrees of luck and in this time I’ve looked at a number of solutions including proprietary hardware (too expensive!!), Microsoft Windows Media Centre Edition (expensive and it runs [...]
“The French national police force, the Gendarmerie Nationale, has spoken about their migration away from the Windows platform to Linux. Estimated to have already saved the force 50 Million Euros, the migration is due to be completed on all 90,000 workstations by 2015. Of the move, Lt. Col. Guimard had this comment: ‘”Moving from Microsoft [...]
OK, so I tried to run the upgrade last night and I’ve ended up with a few issues. This could be my fault, however I did follow the instructions found on the debian website and had to resolve multiple dependencies. The minor issues I’ve encountered: slocate appears to have been removed and replaced with mlocate. [...]
I’ve been using BackupPC for the last year to securely backup servers to a remote location over Rsync and SSH, however I recently stumbled across an issue with backing up the SVN root directory on an SVN server.
