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More Opsware joys and headaches

// June 23rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Reviews, Work

The more I work with Opsware, the more I think the tool was just designed with a much different philosophy than my own. To translate - the product isn’t bad, I just don’t agree with it ( I didn’t agree with BMC alot more tho’ ). I’m much more of a hardcore Puppet [...]

Restarting Cisco VPN Subsystem on OS X

// June 9th, 2009 // No Comments » // Mac, Work

If you’re like me and you use your MacBook Pro for work, it might stand to reason that you have to VPN into your work network. If so, it also may be a good chance that you use the Cisco VPN client and have run into this annoying message:
Error 51: Unable to communicate with [...]

Book Review: Victory of Eagles

// June 4th, 2009 // No Comments » // Books

Recently finished the book ‘Victory of Eagles’ by Naomi Novik ( one of those female authors I mentioned that I actually do like ) - this is the fifth book in the series and thankfully not the last. As I was reading this novel I was under the impression that it had was the [...]

Formatting fixes incoming

// June 3rd, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Website, Work

So I’ve found some issues with this theme - namely it doesn’t have any concept of pre text for code/console display for tech docs and it doesn’t like to bold text.
I’ll be fixing some of the formatting issues hopefully tonight and then will post my Gitorious on RHEL5 setup tutorial and the pains I went [...]

Gitorious setup: RSTRING_LEN in rdiscount

// June 2nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Unix, Work

Ran into an issue recently where I was trying to install gitorious on a local RHEL5 system. The site would crash every time I tried to view a repo with the error:
ruby: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rdiscount-1.3.1.1/lib/rdiscount.so: undefined symbol: RSTRING_LEN
The solution ended up being the following - In the file /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/ruby.h ( note I’m running [...]

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