I blogged about setting up redis before, here’s a small update to the situation: If you’re running Ubuntu 9.10 or 10.04.x, the most recent release available through aptitude is 1.x. Version 1.x doesn’t include many things (pubsub, etc.) which are available in 2.x. So this leaves you with two options! Compile! Compiling redis-server is simple (aka, make && sudo make install), a few things were missing (last time I checked):...
When I ran our setup on an instance the other day, I noticed how it failed with a “package not found” (or similar) error. After debugging this a bit, we discovered that Karmic moved from “archive.ubuntu.com” to “old-releases.ubuntu.com” (Probably diskspace or something — but who knows? :-)). And because the sources pointed to the former, it broke the bootstrap process on new and existing EC2 instances and Vagrant VMs for us....
So after updating 10.04 to 10.10 sound didn’t work — again. I’ve bitched and moaned about sound and Ubuntu countless times on Twitter and after literally wasting away countless hours on sound and Ubuntu in the recent months, here are some pointers so hopefully others won’t waste as much time as I did. Pulseaudio There are countless of threads and blog posts online about how people despise pulseaudio and I have no idea if there’s anything better, but I’m running Ubuntu because I don’t care....
In order to connect to firewall and DRACs of our new Rackspace cluster, I had to setup a VPN connection. Rackspace gave us a Cisco ASA device which is firewall and vpn in one. In order to connect to the VPN the client needs to do 2-factor authentication. At first I tried to install the necessary add-ons for Ubuntu’s network-manager, but after I spent an hour or so trying to make it work, I took an alternate route....
If you followed my blog, you probably know about chef and vagrant. So the other day I managed to upgrade to VirtualBox 4.0. The upgrade just happened by accident, so to speak. I noticed that Virtualbox 4.0 had moved from nonfree to contrib on Oracle’s repository which is why I had previously missed it. With 4.0, I am now able to run the latest and greatest Vagrant — and with Vagrant being pre-1....