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Mathias Gug: Overview of a Puppet Split CA architecture
The Puppet Master CA is the only Certificate Authority (CA) in the whole infrastructure. It issues certificates for all Puppet agents. It also manages the Puppet Master systems. The Puppet Masters are...
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Mathias Gug: Using puppet in UEC/EC2: Improving performance with Phusion...
Now that we have an efficient process to start instances within UEC/EC2 and get them configured for their task by puppet we’ll dive into improving the performance of the puppetmaster with Phusion...
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Mathias Gug: Using puppet in UEC/EC2: Node classification
In a previous article I discussed how to set up an automated registration process for puppet instances. We’ll now have a look at how we can tell these instances what they should be doing. Going back...
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Maciej Danielski: My new #! CrunchBang desktop
Here’s the current looks of my CrunchBang 10 “Statler” Alpha 2 desktop. Simple and dark. Openbox is great, but once you start customizing it, you keep finding all those little things you can change,...
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Og Maciel: Pylyglot, Now With More Languages
Blooming Translations Managed to update Pylyglot, my Django-based translations tool to include 22 new languages and the very latest GNOME 3.0 packages. Hope you guys find it useful! Languages: 52...
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Ingeniero Forigua: Ubuntu Open Week en español Octubre 11 al 15
Ubuntu Open Week en español Octubre 11 al 15 Inicia la semana Ubuntera por lanzamiento de ubuntu maverick que será lanzado el dia 10-10-10 al igual que los hablantes en ingles, los hispano hablantes...
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Aaron Toponce: Please Consider The Environment Before Printing This Post
I just saw my first email, where in the bottom of the signature, it contained the following, in green italicized text:P Please consider the environment before printing this email.At first, I thought...
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Martin Owens: Copying Ideas is Not Theft
In a recent yahoo blog post about Apple in the hock for patent infringement here. The story itself is fairly typical of the growing nuclear destruction that’s going on in the technology world, as...
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Nathan Haines: Ubuntu Hour Lake Forest, October 7th
We're in the final run up to a very exciting release date. Ubuntu 10.10 is scheduled to be one of the most exciting releases ever. The new Ubuntu experience meets refinements and now with an elegant...
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Maia Kozheva: The Kubuntu Wishlist
So, what happened to the resident from our Tale of Two Houses? Well, as it happens, after seeing one dispute too many in the first house (including memorable incidents when the orange-shirted...
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Marc Deslauriers: Stuck on dial-up
My mother has been a happy Ubuntu user ever since I installed Dapper to solve the countless problems she was having with Windows Me. Since her computer is starting to age, and she's a 5-hour drive...
View ArticleAron Xu: Announcing Beijing Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party
Hello everybody, We are happy to announce that we’ll hold Beijing Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party on 16th Oct, 2010. Time: 2010-10-16 14:00-17:50 Location: Building 3, BUAA, No. 37 Xueyuan Road, Haidian...
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Ara Pulido: On First Experiences
Everybody agrees how important the Out-Of-Box experience is for a product. If the users’ first experience with any kind of product is frustrating it is very likely that they’ll return it and never...
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Dustin Kirkland: Try Ubuntu Server in the Cloud on our Dime!
in the CloudAt the Lucid Release Party in Austin, Texas, I bought a round of beer, and I remarked that for the price of a pint of the local micro-brew (about $5 at this particular pub), I could have...
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Raphaël Hertzog: The right way to remove an obsolete conffile in a Debian...
A conffile is a configuration file managed by dpkg, I’m sure you remember the introductory article about conffiles. When your package stops providing a conffile, the file stays on disk and it’s...
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Ralph Janke: Segmentation fault for thunderbird on Ubuntu lucid and maverick
If thunderbird does not work (crashed with segmentation fault) and the authentication for the user accounts is done via ldap, it is possible that the nscd packages has not been installed. After...
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Duncan McGreggor: Multi-touch at UDS-N in Orlando, October 25th-29th
The up-coming UDS in October is looking to be quite fantastic. The community around the Ubuntu distro is, as always, deeply involved, passionate, and eager to break new ground... but lately there...
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Dave Murphy: Always good to get more exposure...
Always good to get more exposure...: I’m justifiably proud of the work I did on the public certification listings for Ubuntu. Posts like this reinforce that. :)
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Stephan Hermann: News on the FAI and (DC)² Front
I forgot to blog about it, so here are the news:After 10 years the FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) Project got a new home. In former times you found the FAI project on...
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Matthew Revell: Brian Revell 8th June 1948 – 7th October 2010
Dad died at around 10.15 this morning. He was asleep and went peacefully. I’d been worried that he’d suffocate while awake, as he almost did last weekend. Motor neurone disease seems a particularly...
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