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   by uggedal 15y ago

   I'll release complementary Puppet modules for Redis and UFW soon. I also might extend the webapp module to support Ruby with Unicorn, RVM and Monit.
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   Deploying Python WSGI applications with Puppet(journal.uggedal.com)

   54 points by uggedal 15y ago|14 comments
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   by uggedal 15y ago

   Looks like this is somewhat dependent on their data center providers: This will be a phased roll-out across the facilities, starting with immediate availability in Fremont, Newark in a week or so, followed by Dallas. From the FAQ[1] page:
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   by uggedal 15y ago

   I did some studies of different cloud provider's performance 1.5 years ago and Linode won by a wide margin: http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison/ I ran some quick checks on Rackpace a few months ago and with the little da
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   by uggedal 15y ago

   The keyboard::apple just changes the contents of /etc/default/keyboard to: XKBMODEL="apple" XKBLAYOUT="us" XKBVARIANT="mac" XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rwin,altwin:swap_lalt_lwin" The network::interfaces::wirele
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   by uggedal 15y ago

   I'm also thrilled with my MacBook Air 11" running Debian. The installation and configuration took some time though. Since I manage it all in Puppet it's easy to reproduce. Here is the high level Puppet code to configure everything to my lik
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   by uggedal 16y ago

   I first heard of Nginx from a blog post[1] by Ezra Zygmuntowicz almost 5 years ago. I suspect Ezra was the primary contributor to the success of Nginx in the western world. [1]: http://brainspl.at/articles/2006/08/23/nginx-my-new-favorite.
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   by uggedal 16y ago

   It has been my understanding that at least the fixed CPU instances on EC2 run on a custom Xen.
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   by uggedal 16y ago

   Or you could override the default file resource attributes in sites.pp: File { owner => root, group => root, mode => 644, } Then you could override that again in individual file resources. If you need severa
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    by uggedal 16y ago

    Though a bit dated, I wrote a performance comparison of some of the providers mentioned in this article: http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison
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    by uggedal 16y ago

    Until this weekend I was also using Debian on my servers and Arch on my workstation. Recently I've started to manage my servers with Puppet. Since Puppet don't support pacman, I installed Squeeze on my workstation and I'm now managing it wi
12. 162.▲
    by uggedal 16y ago

    For anyone curious, 99.984% uptime works out to 84 minutes of downtime over one year.
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    Show HN: mediaqueri.es - a gallery of responsive web designs(mediaqueri.es)

    4 points by uggedal 16y ago|0 comments
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    by uggedal 16y ago

    My main development "box" is a 512MB Linode running tmux, weechat, vim, and some zsh consoles. Efficient, consistent and reachable from all kind of machines and places.
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    by uggedal 16y ago

    Seems like they did not scale heroscale.com itself. All I get is: App crashed This application is temporarily offline. If you're the administrator of this app, please check your heroku logs for the backtrace.
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    by uggedal 16y ago

    After doing some stability testing, I'm now running 2.2.0 RC1 in production on http://wasitup.com Unwise, maybe. But thanks to the ease of doing this upgrade on several nodes with Puppet I couldn't help myself.
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    by uggedal 16y ago

    Webkit based browsers don't show the text before the @font-face font is loaded. You can achieve the same effect in Firefox and Opera by using WebFont Loader: http://24ways.org/2010/using-the-webfont-loader-to-make-brow...
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    by uggedal 16y ago

    For those on Linux and without Flash, may I recommend http://vminko.org/it_notes/video-dl to play the video in mplayer: wget http://vminko.org/storage/video-dl.sh && chmod + x video-dl.sh && ./video-dl.sh vm 17158963
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    by uggedal 16y ago

    Like http://www.appignite.com/ ?
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    by uggedal 16y ago

    More up to date version of webkit2png: https://github.com/AdamN/python-webkit2png There's also an OS X version available: https://github.com/paulhammond/webkit2png/
21. 171.▲
    by uggedal 16y ago

    There might be a privacy issue here. I seem to have gotten the page another user requested, and not the one I typed in: http://imgur.com/QB6Yc.png
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    by uggedal 16y ago

    I noticed two network outages in the Newark data center over the last year. I moved to the London facility in May and have had 100% uptime there since.
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    by uggedal 16y ago

    Just keep in mind that I host http://wasitup.com in Linode's London facilities. Data center redundancy has been on my TODO list for some time now.
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    Buildbot: CI is hard(jacobian.org)

    8 points by uggedal 16y ago|0 comments
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    by uggedal 16y ago

    I like to keep it simple. Hardware: ASUS Eee PC 1201N 12.1" AKG K518DJ Headphones Software: Arch Linux DWM Window Manager Firefox with Vimperator Puppet git hg Vim urxvt Zsh openssh
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    by uggedal 16y ago

    The Cassandra and MongoDB articles are already available.
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    by uggedal 16y ago

    Recent projects have been in Python, but my current project is written in Go.
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    "Web Scale"(jacobian.org)

    4 points by uggedal 16y ago|4 comments
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    by uggedal 16y ago

    Vim does support undo branches/trees internally: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/undo.html#undo-branche...
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    by uggedal 16y ago

    Not so here in Norway. I've observed this behavior on several occasions when visiting Spain though.