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Fixing Freenas disks spindown with jails

Posted by Leon Bogaert on in Other

After installing the jails plugin together with bacula-sd and Firefly the disks in my Freenas box wouldn’t spin down. I first thought of Firefly doing something strange but that wasn’t the case.

I then disabled the complete jails plugin and the disk...

Certificate verify failed on a puppet client

Posted by Leon Bogaert on in Other 

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Warning: Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue:
Warning: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed: [unable to...

Installing KeepassX 2 on Ubuntu 13.04

Posted by Leon Bogaert on in Linux

I’m using keepas(x) + dropbox as a replacement for lastpass since a couple of days.

I installed the version from the Ubuntu (13.04) repositories but I also wanted to try the new keepassx 2 beta. This is what I did to compile it from source:

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Using your desktop's git author everywhere you ssh

Posted by Leon Bogaert on in Development

At work I’m trying to push new techniques and methods. That’s also the case with git. I’m trying to convince my co-workers of the benefits of working with git.

Because of the mix between old project structure (remote dev environments) and working...

Determining the fastest DNS server

Posted by Leon Bogaert on in Other

I’ve used the OpenDNS server for some time as my primary DNS server on my OpenWrt router. However, I asked myself the question if it was actually faster then my ISP’s (Zeelandnet) DNS server. A quick search online produced namebench as nice software...