Since the new server is to be a hypervisor, there are configuration steps to be done.

My braindump follows.

introduction

My new server has IPMI which includes a watchdog timer.

Since I regularly get told that hardware watchdogs are no fun to set up, I’ll record my setup steps for an IPMI watchdog here. This document is not about watchdogs in general, but rather specifically on how to use an IPMI watchdog on a recent Red Hat based distribution.

The Super Micro remote management webUI is nice and even offers KVM with HTML5. But I much prefer using vendor agnostic IPMI directly instead of a vendor specific tool like iDRAC, iLO, etc.

These are my notes on setting fan thresholds via IPMI for my H11DSi-NT motherboard.

My significant other and I got ourselves a new home server.

After playing with it for a week, I’ve decided that Hugo will indeed be the blog software I use for now.

While I very much liked the idea of Octopress generating static pages, I do not know enough Ruby to deal with problems I had after updating my base OS.

Even if, like me, you do not want to install Google Play on your Jolla; you can still use Öffi.

1. Install Android support via Jolla store.

2. Grab the file for a custom Android without com.google.android.maps library (aosp) from Öffi’s download page.

3. Install it

On customer site, I am quite often forced to use a Windows machine to access the Linux boxes I work on. This means I will not have an ssh-agent (nor a gpg-agent) running on the machine I’m sitting at (the Win box) and the Linux boxes I access via putty tend to have shared home directories.

Long story short, I need one agent per Linux box taking into account that I may have more than one login shell to the Linux box (i.e. multiple putty windows) and config files including the hostname.

from time to time I need to configure an apache httpd with Kerberos authentication, a quick braindump follows.

New SSL certificate.

This is an update of the post from 2013-09-13

If you intend to build native graphical applications for the Jolla phone, then by all means follow the official docs.

If, OTOH, you are used to writing spec files and feeding another build system (for me it’s mainly Koji), then read on.