Month: June 2011

I was reviewing the FAQ for cryptsetup today and noticed the following warning on the page: – Ubuntu as of 4/2011: It seems the installer offers to create LUKS partitions in a way that several people mistook for an offer to activate their existing LUKS partition. The installer gives no or an inadequate warning and […]

As I’ve been working with Jenkins lately, authentication has become an obstacle to overcome. I’ve begun using the AD plugin for authentication which seems to work fairly well. Two issues that I have found semi regularly as I test and implement solutions around authentication are; 1) administrator locked out, and 2) connection timeouts to AD […]

Updated post here. When creating an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) where there are additional volumes added, these volumes are typically not set to delete on termination. This means that after you spin through 5-10 instances based on this AMI there will remain a large number of volumes left over that were not deleted when the […]

Much of the virtualization around Linux over the last couple of years has gone to KVM which has made it appear as if Xen is dead or dieing. This is not true! The largest virtual infrastructure in the world uses Xen as a hypervisor – Amazon Web Services. Now Xen is in the mainline code […]

I upgraded to Fedora 15 the day it came out and have a few thoughts on the matter. Preupgrade The official Fedora documentation recommends using the “preupgrade” package to upgrade from Fedora 14. Don’t do it. It blew up and I had to spend 2 hours manually resolving the issues that it caused. Gnome Shell […]