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No space left on device – running out of Inodes

One of our development servers went down today. Problems started with deployment script that claimed that claimed “No space left on device”, although partition was not nearly full. If you ever run into such trouble – most likely you have too many small or 0-sized files on your disk, and while you have enough disk [...]

Upgrading iPhone firmware using VMWare and Ubuntu 9.04

This was the second time I upgrade firmware on my iPhone, and second time I ran into the same problem.  In the middle of the update iTunes reports “Unknown error” and iPhone dies (well, goes into recovery mode, but it is not much help). If that happened to you, don’t panic! To make this geeky [...]

Setting up Ruby, Rails, Git and Redmine on Dreamhost

The task is to have:
- Redmine installation on redmine.mydomain.com
- Several Git repositories on git.mydomain.com with different access rights to each one
This proved to be a non-trivial task. There is a number of tutorials on the net, but none of them described the full solution. So after getting it all to work, I decided to share [...]

Migrating domain emails to Google Apps mail

While performing some administrative tasks on one of the domains I maintain, I decided that the time has come to switch to a modern and reliable solution – Google Mail.
If you have an IMAP mailbox hosted somewhere and you want to move it to Google, then do the following (example is set for migrating [...]

What’s new in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jakalope

It was a fun weekend. I upgraded from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 on my Lenovo T61 and installed it instead of Windows Vista on my wife’s new Dell Vostro 1510.
Both upgrade and installation on both machines went without a single hickup, which was a positive surprise after my last experience with Ubuntu upgrade.

Introducing Moozement

Last year I got involved in the development of a new social network – Moozement. There are plenty of social networks out there, there are even white label social networks. So why create another one?
Jyri Engeström wrote some time ago about the case for object-centered sociality: “’social networking’ makes little sense if we leave out [...]

Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron or “Ubuntu sucks… get a Mac”

I should admit – I shamelessly borrowed part of the title for this post from Tyler.
I had exactly same feeling after upgrading from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04.
I’ve been meaning to write about this upgrade for almost two months now. Right after Ubuntu 8.04 was released I upgraded two of my laptops from Ubuntu 7.10 to [...]

Sampo bank software upgrade, Ubuntu and beta culture

Even if you are not Sampo bank’s customer, but live in Finland, you have most probably heard by now about continuous problems Sampo had with their web-bank system.
When Sampo launched the new system this Easter, they took into use Java-based authentication system. Of course it didn’t work in my Ubuntu 7.10, but after removing Open [...]

Moving /home to its own partition

After upgrading Ubuntu to 8.04 I decided it would be a good idea to finally move /home folder to a separate partition. It makes it much easier to make backups and reinstall operating system if all data/configurations are safely stored on their own partition.
Without installing additional hard drive (which would be impractical for laptop user [...]

Ubuntu 7.10 on Lenovo T61

I bought myself a new laptop – Lenovo T61 (15.4″ WSXGA+ TFT, Intel GMA X3100 GM965 [...]