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For years I’ve run into the annoying issue of accidentally triggering some keyboard mode switch by way of a keyboard shortcut combination that I could not find otherwise.... Read More

In this how to we’re going to manage in total 16 different LXC nodes on two different host machines. One of the two host machines will have the “master” nodes in the MySQL cluster, the other host machine will run the slave nodes we will replicate to from the master nodes.... Read More

Being timed out after 1440 seconds on your local dev machine is extremely annoying, here’s how to remedy that in two simple steps:... Read More

I just tried to use my old trusty Grey Reuben in Ubuntu 14.04 and something must’ve happened since 12.04 because it’s now broken.... Read More

The information in the below guide turned out to be surprisingly difficult to come by, it took days of googling before everything was running smoothly.... Read More

Oh my, after having discovered that my employer was vulnerable to the heartbleed bug I quickly ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on some Ubuntu 12.04 systems. Problem solved… not so fast, suddenly a lot of services communicating with us stopped understanding what we were returning over SSL.... Read More

First of all, this walk through pertains to Ubuntu 12.04 and assumes that your hosting company or ISP is able and willing to assign an extra static IP to an arbitrary hwaddress/mac on your host machine.... Read More

So this weekend I finally had enough of the GTK2 vs GTK3 theme discrepancies. Up until now I’ve resorted to simply do the default Radiance theme combined with the Metacity part of Reuben.... Read More

Update: keep the CPU settings to one CPU and RAM usage to below 4GB to avoid issues with the virtual network cards. And make sure you comment the bind-address line in your my.cnf for inter-network database interaction.... Read More