about 11 months ago - 4 comments
Update 2009-09-02: Now I’m using a single Linode and a Xen VPS from my very own hosting service. This means the VPSes have one more thing less in common, hosting company.
Until recently I used one Linode VPS for hosting all my sites. On 26th March, there was a DDoS attack on one of the Linode [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
My new year resolution was to ditch Subversion and move to Git. I switched to Git as my SCM for all my development work on new year day it self. I did hit some issues because my ignorance about how things are done with Git, however everything was fixed within the day. Now, 20 days [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
I bought a Avermedia PCI pure analog (M135A) recently (26th December) and to much to my delight it was just plug and play on my home media center running Debian testing with custom built Linux kernel 2.6.28 (Released on 24th December). TV tuner was working with no issues. All local TV channels we accessible [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
I was trying to print a large document, and it would never print. A small print job had no issues. To add to that I was printing a stupid PDF form that will only open with Acrobat Reader. The print job was passing through many places, VMWare guest, my notebook, and finally print server. I [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
Last Friday I got a 2nd connection for my home-office. Now I have 1Mbit/s WiMAX uplink from Dialog Broadband and 512Kbit/s (Soon will be upgraded to 1Mbit/s) WiMAX uplink from Lanka Bell.
I have setup one of my old PCs as the router. I couldn’t find a single router with multi-uplink here in Sri Lanka, but [...]
about 1 year ago - 7 comments
Monit is an open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit is capable of automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. It takes less than 15 minutes to setup and run this wonderful tool on most Unix servers. It also [...]
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
Few hours ago I upgraded my Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10. Upgrade it self was a smooth one. Download took around 1.5 hours and the installation was around 45 minutes. Ubuntu 8.10 Human theme looks sexy. New wireless driver for Intel 3945ABG has support for the LED indicator as well.
Only issues were:
ALSA was locked while [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
Ubuntu 8.10 named Intrepid Ibex will be released on 30th October 2008. I’m looking forward for the release tomorrow. I’ll be upgrading my machines to Ibex. New features in 8.10 are:
GNOME 2.24
X.Org 7.4
Linux kernel 2.6.27
Encrypted private directory
Guest session
Network Manager 0.7
Samba 3.2
PAM authentication framework
Totem BBC plugin
Server Virtualization
There is more, you can check out http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/810rc.
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about 2 years ago - 1 comment
It was little bit too scary. Duplicity backup scripts were failing on the EC2 instances again, this time around it was not about not able to reach S3, but having too many files open. That was weird because it didn’t give such a error in the past. However the work around was to increase the [...]
about 2 years ago - No comments
I always wanted to just have an Internet TV, no cable, no satellite, no terrestrial. Even when it comes to TV I want to watch what I want when I want, not when the broadcaster wants. Internet TV was the ideal. Main thing I missed was really good content with really good quality. Only hope [...]
