A while back I set up a virtual kickstart network with VMware Fusion and Cobbler on my Mac. But Fusion (unlike VMware server/workstation) made tweaking low-level settings hard, so I’ve switched to VirtualBox, which is free (for non-commercial/eductional use), has a kick-ass command line interface and much better networking options. Here’s a revised howto. why? I’ll just [...]
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hacking servers to trust your CA
Welcome, Googlers For the second time this millenium, I’ve had to persuade a server to trust the LDAP server in the corner. The one with an SSL certificate written in crayon. Eventually I found a fix – my own, from a few years back, on a mailing list archive (I never got round to restoring [...]
memcached on solaris 10 for Roller4
I have a 2-node Glassfishv2 cluster running Roller 4 on Solaris 10 and discovered (the hard way) that memcached is the only safe caching option . If you’re trying to run Roller on a Glassfish cluster, do yourself a favour and skim over this checklist. You’ll thank me later, honest. install memcached (If you’re running Solaris [...]
