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Snow and Surf
Sunday, September 5th, 2010Installing VMWare on Ubuntu
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010I KNOW there is a howto for this, and its very useful but i remember there were a few other little tricks to actually get it setup – and some gotcha’s with the service being rendered unstartable after a reboot intermittently – which i hope to address here. And Matt couldn’t get it working…
Iron Horse Sunday Team Review
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Dayjob Orchestra Hilarity
Monday, January 11th, 2010Comedy gold.
Setting Up Perbal Load Balancer on Ubuntu
Monday, January 11th, 2010download the binaries from
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perlbal/
standard perl module prerequisites include:
Danga::Socket
Sys::Syscall
IO::AIO
find these with
sudo apt-cache search socket | grep danga
(and just) install these with
sudo apt-get install libdanga-socket-perl
sudo apt-get install libsys-syscall-perl
sudo apt-get install libio-aio-perl
untar the downloaded file and run
sudo perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
sudo mkdir /etc/perlbal
copy the conf file from http://www.livejournal.com/doc/server/lj.install.supplemental_sw.perlbal.html
into /etc/perlbal/perlbal.conf (this is where perlbal looks by default for its conf file)
make sure that Apache or any other daemon isn’t already bound to port 80. Assign a different port, like 8080 to apache if its running on the same system.
fiendish feline turdery
Sunday, December 6th, 2009Fractured Scaphoid
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Coolies
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Before I Moved To Melbourne
Sunday, October 4th, 2009Before I moved from Perth to Melbourne a few years back:
- It was OK to speak “says” instead of “sez“
- Nobody picked me up on saying “nothink” instead of “nothing“
- Going for a surf before / after work was a possibility
- Checking www.bom.gov.au was only for sailors
- It was Aussie to own a commodore.
- Roadworthy certificate? what on earth for?
- Coffee was only for those unable to drink beer
- Going to the local watering hole was a drive not a walk
Broadford Track Day
Friday, September 25th, 2009Well it was just a little wet for my liking… especially with dry tyres… but there were no spills and no (major) mechanical dramas. But a few close calls… and lots of power-sliding and almost high-siding!
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