Ubuntu

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).

Microsoft introduced a new type of VPN with Windows Server 2008 called Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP).

Linux support is provided by sstp-client, and network-manager-sstp. However, there are currently no packages in the offical repos and the author’s sites recommend compiling from source.

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.

I recently re-discovered my ATI Remote Wonder and decided to get it working under my Ubuntu Linux XBMC install.

Configure a Jenkins slave on Ubuntu 10.04