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Bypass Hulu Regional Restrictions in Mac OS X
Nov 16th
Hulu is a great site to find new shows and catch up on old, but due to various contracts no one outside the US can use it. This irritated some friends of mine from Canada, England, Germany, et cetera. So I decided to write up one (very reliable) way to circumvent the Hulu geolocation checks — using a VPN.1
Accessing Hulu Outside The USIn this case, we’ll be using a small VM and the open source VPN server pptpd. All the server side instructions below are applicable to both OS X and Windows, but the client setup is only specified More >
SSL VHosting On The Same IP (aka SNI)
Nov 3rd
Server Name Indication (SNI), an extension to TLS, allows browsers that support it to connect to SSL hosts that do not have dedicated IPs (much like standard http virtual hosting has worked for years). This extension, however, must be supported on both the server and client side. Microsoft has not yet chosen to support it (maybe IIS 8?), but the Apache project did with the 2.2.12 release. Recently, Ubuntu 9.10 Server became the first server distribution to ship with Apache and OpenSSL built with the appropriate flags, so if you’d like to follow along you can use a 9.10 VM.
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Upgrading Ubuntu Server to 9.10
Oct 29th
A quick reminder for those who don’t know or have forgotten how to upgrade an Ubuntu server:
sudo apt-get install update-manager-core sudo do-release-upgrade
Follow the instructions, reboot, and you’re done!
Ubuntu 9.10 Article Updated
Oct 25th
I’ve just updated my Ubuntu 9.10 in VMware article with a better process. If you’re looking to install Karmic Koala when it’s released on 10/29 check it out!
Ubuntu 9.10 In VMware – Updated
Oct 5th
Update 2: Preliminary 10.04 instructions are available here. No real obstacles for those running the latest Fusion/Workstation.
Update: If you’re using VMware Fusion 3.0 or any VMware Tools version 8.2.3-204229 or better you can follow a drastically simplified process. sudo apt-get install build-essential, choose install VMware Tools from the menu, copy tar to desktop, untar, sudo ./vmware-install.pl and follow the instructions. Simple!
With the release of the Ubuntu 9.10 RC it’s time to revisit installing Ubuntu into a VMware VM. I’m using VMware Fusion 2.0.x, but behavior should be largely the same for any recent VMware release.
First, create a new VM and More >
Upgrading Ubuntu Server 8.10 (Intrepid) to 9.04 (Jaunty)
Apr 26th
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 packages of 8.10 and install the scripts to move to Jaunty. Be sure you have screen installed as well — Ubuntu does not like having upgrades interrupted so you want to be able to resume if your session is interrupted for any reason.
screen do-release-upgrade
It will download and check a few things and More >