Now that Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) is out I decided to upgrade a few of my servers from 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) to the latest release. To upgrade via the command line follow these steps (as root or via sudo): aptitude update aptitude safe-upgrade aptitude install update-manager-core This will get your system upgraded to the latest [...]

If you’ve ever wanted to set up a ramdisk in Mac OS X, here’s a quick script you can use. Simply invoke it with a size in MB and the name for your volume and it will create and automount it for you. It also won’t leave any dangling directories in your /Volumes/ when you [...]

If you’re a Mac OS X user running Subversion on the command line and mounting remote disks you may have run into instances where you want to globally ignore ._*, .AppleDouble, and *:2e_* files. To do this simply open your Terminal and edit your ~/.subversion/config file and look for the line below. #global-ignores = *.o [...]

If you’re running a Microsoft CA and you want to be able to accept enrollment requests from clients supporting keygen (Firefox, Safari, Opera, et cetera) you’ve probably found that the /certsrv/ page allows enrollment, but the requests fail when you attempt to issue the certificate.  This is because the server is not parsing the subject [...]

I have found myself growing tired of paying for cable TV, so this year I wanted to see if I could use MLB.tv as a replacement. One of the major new features MLB is marketing for MLB.tv in 2009 is called “NexDef” and purports to provide an HD stream along with DVR functionality. How could [...]

Update 10/26/09 Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) is about to be released, so check out the new guide for that version. Update 4/25/09 Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) final was released a few days ago so I grabbed it and rebuilt my VM. I don’t recommend using the “easy install” option at this time, so uncheck that [...]