Using autounmask to Unmask Packages in Gentoo
Gentoo is one of my favorite Linux distributions. Although I am comfortable with other distributions, Gentoo has a special place in my heart and whenever I can use it I do :)
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18 May2011
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21 Apr2011
LibreOffice Auto Update
We all knew it was coming. Ever since Oracle took an astounding turn towards the non-community orientation of OpenOffice, a lot of users on the Internet were curious (and concerned) as to what will happen with the whole OpenOffice saga.
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04 Apr2011
Building a HA Cluster on Linode
I have recently blogged about Slicehost vs. Linode and my decision to move my sites to the latter. Since then, I can safely say that I made the right choice about the move. Linode’s support is phenomenal. There has never been a ticket unanswered more than 5 minutes and all the tickets have been resolved. Even when I asked about a configuration issue regarding Heartbeat, which was clearly not in the realm of support, the support engineers did look at my configuration and did identify the error area. That alone saved me hours of troubleshooting and trying to find where the error was.
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21 Mar2011
Slicehost vs. Linode
Through the years I have hosted my sites on various hosting companies. I had the really good experiences like Vertexhost and really terrible ones - I don’t remember the name of the host, but that kid, as it turned out to be later on, managed to lose 1.6GB of my data. You can safely say that I have been burned by bad hosting companies but also have enjoyed the services of good ones. In the case of Vertexhost, I part owned that company a few years back and I know that the current owner is a straight up guy and really cares for his customers.
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10 Mar2011
Additional storage for Google Apps users
I have been using Google Apps for a number of years now and I have gotten so used to it that I cannot fathom any other way of operating. I am sure that some of you share that sentiment. :)