Linux

OVH provides a secondary DNS service for its VPS customers (docs), however you must enable zone transfers to their server (sdns1.ovh.ca)

Determine your GitLab version from the command line

GitLab is a neat GitHub clone that can be installed on your own servers. I wanted to setup mine running in a virtualized Ubuntu 12.04LTS environment.

After doing a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 I had problems installing running VMware Workstation 8; when building the kernel modules it failed to build the network module (vmnet).

After upgrading to VMWare ESXi 5 from 4.1, I found one of my datastore volumes would no longer mount. The disk would show up as a device, but there were a series of errors whenever I tried to mount the volume.

I wanted to try out some of the new features in the upcoming XBMC Eden release.

The problem is that I am running XMBC-live on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid and the Eden xbmc-live package requires the uxlaunch package which is only available in newer versions of Ubuntu. However, it is still possible to get a working xbmc-live setup by manually configuring the system startup.

The OpenVPN config file structure on ClearOS is non-standard (For example there is no server.conf), so I was unsure where to put the directive. However, as it turns out enabling the Management console is as simple as adding the following to /etc/openvpn/clients.conf:

management localhost 7505

Configure a Jenkins slave on Ubuntu 10.04

This guide will help you setup WPA Enterprise authentication using the RADIUS functionality built into ClearOS 5.2.

The other day when I was setting up email notifications for a Zend Framework application, I stumbled across Fakemail.

From the developers website:

fakemail is a fake mail server that captures emails as files for acceptance testing. This avoids the excessive configuration of setting up a real mail server and trying to extract mail queue content.