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Load Testing with a Swarm of Angry Bees
–Not related to my SBR600 project but still a seriously cool open source load testing tool. Over the reading break I was asked to do some load testing on a local app. I’ve done this previously with...
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Compiling AoE into a ARM Kernel – Release 0.1
My original 0.1 was to get a AoE Client working on ARM, due to time restrictions I kind of fell short on this, I have decided getting a proper client/server model setup for 0.2 and do the testing and...
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Physical devices dont show up in Xen’s Virt-Manager
Over the weekend I was working on setting up XenServer on Centos. Inside virt-manager while trying to add a new NIC card to the DomU there was a problem . I could select one of the virtual networks,...
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Getting the the root cause of problems on Linux
Debugging is a daily part of any sysadmins job, fixing things becomes second nature after a while. Its amazing how even the smallest of problems can eat up large parts of your day as you try to track...
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Dynamic iptables rules for NIS server
When you start up the ypserv daemon it will start up with different ports every time, this can be a pain to manage if you have a firewall or use a RedHat system which blocks ports by default. Here is a...
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Generate Puppet recipe from running system
Puppet a linux based config-management system that allows you to manage multiple server configs at the same time with little overhead. The process of turning a running server into puppet recipe is a...
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Git Post-Receive script on Trac with a shared repo.
If you use the GitPlugin with trac and want to use the post-receive script in order to use the CommitTicketUpdater (http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/GitPlugin#post-receivehookscripts) and you have multiple...
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Seneca CTY and CNS – My thoughts after 3 years.
I recently graduated from CNS at Seneca (after finshing 5 semesters of CTY) and I thought I would do a write up on my thoughts on it for people who are interested in applying for it or are currently...
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Deploying Merengue inside Virtualenv via Apache/mod_wsgi
Merengueis a Django based CMS web application, it allows you to create a website with paging and several other features. The CMS will enable you to have easy access to a panel that will allow you to...
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Turning a Blueprint Puppet recipe into a Puppet deployment
A few weeks ago I had a post about Blueprint which is a tool that will map out a running linux system and turn out a puppet configuration. At the time of the initial post I hadn't really tried actually...
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