Bamboo is software by Atlassian that will build your software and do stuff https://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo You might also know Jira, Confluence, Crowd & Stash. Their PR machine is excellent (Like that time when they hijacked 10 years GIT. They made a beautiful congratulatory page & article that had half my twitter feed think Atlassian invented git. TheyContinue reading “Stuff you will wonder about when installing Bamboo”
Category Archives: Linux
Ansible exit statuses
I need the exit codes for Ansible for reporting purposes. The exit status or return code of a process in computer programming is a small number passed from a child process (or callee) to a parent process (or caller) when it has finished executing a specific procedure or delegated task. wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_status Google can’t seem toContinue reading “Ansible exit statuses”
Ansible-pull unknown hostkey.
I encountered an Ansible-pull “unknown hostkey” error. Starting ansible-pull at 2014-06-03 11:17:00 localhost | FAILED >> { “failed”: true, “msg”: “git.repo.com has an unknown hostkey. Set accept_hostkey to True or manually add the hostkey prior to running the git module” } After some digging around, turns out the latest Ansible has no such problem, butContinue reading “Ansible-pull unknown hostkey.”
Debian Squeeze to Wheezy dist-upgrade breaks sasl+mysql
Upgrading broke my postfix+sasl+mysql auth, cripling my SMTP service. Because libsasl2-2 that was upgraded from 2.1.23 to 2.1.25. I upgraded Debian Squeeze to Wheezy and most of it worked within acceptable parameters. There were problems, but nothing big, except that it killed my SMTP service. Upgrades, the gift that keeps on giving. Many people offeredContinue reading “Debian Squeeze to Wheezy dist-upgrade breaks sasl+mysql”
Available for work starting February 2014
Quick message to let everyone know that I’m available for freelance work starting February 2014. It’s an exciting new time for me 🙂 I can finally take on new clients and expand my activities. I had an exciting time so far, and this means a next step for me 🙂 Fun! Feels kind of redundantContinue reading “Available for work starting February 2014”
Quick GlusterFS Raspberry Pi money math
I did a quick bit of math, considering replacing my current latest Gluster brick with RaspberryPi bricks. I’m taking 125€ a disk for the HDs, as the actual price doesnt matter that much here. I’m also using the same price for both options, while the Rasp-pi needs USB disks and those will at least costContinue reading “Quick GlusterFS Raspberry Pi money math”
Cleaning the XBMC movie collection
I have a lot of movies in t he XBMC server and not all of those are worth watching. Generally, anything with a rating lower than 5 is probably not worth the time! So I wanted to get a list of bad movies with ratings! You can set up XBMC to store the data inContinue reading “Cleaning the XBMC movie collection”
Gnome Shell Animated Background
The support for animated backgrounds in Gnome is not new, but the path to actually rolling your own and activating it on your system is all but easy today. Ubuntu offers 2 magically changing backgrounds but no information about how to do this yourself. There is a cute “+” button that allows you to addContinue reading “Gnome Shell Animated Background”
Ubuntu 12.10
Seeing some really really annoying install errors! Upgrade to 12.10. Still has that ugly "The upgrade needs a total of 24,0 M free space on disk '/boot'. error" though. — Gert 🍑 (@g3n) October 19, 2012 The upgrade will continue but the 'linux-image-extra-3.5.0-17-generic' package may not be in a working state. #omg — GertContinue reading “Ubuntu 12.10”
A script to commit all the GIT projects in a map
I keep all the documents, code and whatnot for DGTL in several git repositories and synchronise those to secret remote locations (cool ey.) But its a hassle to update them all and why keep manually doing mundane tasks when you can replace it with a small (recursive) bash script 🙂 So I did. The scriptContinue reading “A script to commit all the GIT projects in a map”