filed in Linux on Feb.28, 2010
Puppet is an invaluable tool for managing a large number of Linux servers. By defining different classes for each service I deploy, I can easily define what runs on each server I control just by changing the site manifest.
A problem I ran into early when I was bringing services into Puppet was slightly different configurations [...]
filed in Linux, OSS on Feb.17, 2010
A quick introduction to Puppet, a system for replicating configurations to many Linux servers.
filed in Linux, Wine on Jan.20, 2007
The professor for my electricity and magnetism class wants me to use Mathcad instead of Maple, so I bought the student version. I’ve been using it on my Windows laptop for a week or so, but it would be nice to be able to run it on my desktop. The Wine compatibility lists [...]
filed in Flash, Linux on Jan.20, 2007
Those of you in the know already know that Adobe recently released Flash 9 for Linux. An official, honest to god, up to date version. The best part? It actually works.
I’ve had problems with Flash since I switched to Linux, because I foolishly chose the AMD64 version of Kubuntu. After messing [...]
filed in Linux, OSS on Sep.24, 2006
My first experience with Linux was in 1996. Somebody I met in IRC offered to send me a set of Slackware CDs he had lying around for free. What a deal! It blew my mind a little to think that a whole operating system could be (legally) free. I can’t remember [...]