Blindly Accept the Defaults

Capistrano and the shell used for run

baughj — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:06:21 +0000

A short blog post in lieu of a longer one, since I’m so busy. However I noticed this recently and figured someone else might be wondering. The workflow for my biggest client involves using Jenkins as a coordinator for builds & deploys. This often involves checking out something from git, running tests and whatever, then …

Apparently someone reads this blog. My apologies.

baughj — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:37:02 +0000

Huh. Somebody linked to my post on hacker news, which resulted in some interesting comments. Some of them are fairly insulting, but, hey, whatevs. Mostly, I feel I should clarify: I tend to write a certain way on this blog. The post in question was deliberately bombastic; it was reflecting a certain frustration I often …

Migrating from Windows DNS to BIND

baughj — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:38:09 +0000

I don’t often (read: ever) post about Windows, but I thought this might come in handy for a few people. I’ve been working for a new client recently, helping out with their infrastructure. One thing the CTO really wants to do is to use BIND as a DNS server, instead of Windows. The infrastructure side …

rvm install fails on Ubuntu 11.10

baughj — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:31:55 +0000

I recently ran into this problem after upgrading to Oneiric (I’ll keep my opinions to myself on that upgrade; suffice to say I am very much using the “GNOME Classic Fallback, Ancient Thing, For Grumpy People” instead of Unity). More recent versions of OpenSSL remove SSLv2 entirely, due to the protocol being insecure. Certain versions …

A Honeycomb of Discontent

baughj — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:20:57 +0000

So, inspired by my birthday gift of an iPad to Brittany, I decided to make the jump and buy a tablet. I wanted to go out on a limb and own a device that wasn’t iOS based. I’ve been looking at a number of Android tablets for a long while, and many of them seemed …

The penitent man kneels before Goddess

baughj — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:54:16 +0000

It has been an incredibly long three weeks. At work, we’re getting close to relaunching our main website: I’ve spent quite a bit of my time working with Eucalyptus, Merlin, mod_passenger and all sorts of things. In addition to that, my most beloved host, eris.discordians.net, suffered an embarrassing disk failure, which resulted in exposing a …

April Fool’s

baughj — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:28:21 +0000

It’s April 1, and my car is covered in a layer of snow and ice. Does this count? The lack of spring weather is starting to seriously annoy me. It’s part of an ongoing trend that seems to result in the slow extension of New England winters; as if these weren’t long enough. The best …

FreeBSD 8.2 HVM+Xen4 update

baughj — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 04:08:16 +0000

As promised, here’s an update on my HVM FreeBSD guest, and a few things I’ve run into. Using fdisk and friends on a newly attached volume results in a floating point exception It seems that qemu/Bochs doesn’t give any geometry information (at least from what I can see) for attached volumes. This results in a …

Simple, cheap LDAP PHP password changer

baughj — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:59:47 +0000

Here’s a simple, cheap little PHP password change script I modified (original author is Radek Antoniuk, original source), along with the Apache config needed to use it. It’s ugly as hell, but hey, it works. You can use this to send users to https://somehost.yourcompany, where they can update their password, and also upload a public …

HOWTO: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE HVM guest on Xen 4 / Debian Squeeze

baughj — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:16:17 +0000

You may wish to read my update as it contains some important information about disk partitioning and PF performance. Recently, I upgraded my server ashpool to Debian Squeeze, from Lenny. Along with this upgrade, I decided to start using the Debian-packaged Xen 4 (I’ve had a binary install of Xen 3.2 on it for a …