Using Byobu and Landscape to improve remote Ubuntu sessions

January 22nd, 2010 by

SSHing into remote servers can be an awkward experience, but it doesn’t have to be. You can turn your ssh console into a terminal-style window manager with Byobu, and get more system information via landscape.
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Shell Script to Upgrade Ruby Enterprise Edition while Maintaining Directory Naming Sanity

June 10th, 2009 by

As you’re likely already aware, a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in Ruby’s BigDecimal library was uncovered, fixed and reported on June 9, 2009. Patching options include:

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Mount options to improve ext4 file system performance

June 4th, 2009 by

I recently boosted my rails test suite running time by around 30% by adding certain mount options for my ext4 partition (works for ext3 too). I thought I’d blog about it because the first time I tried my system wouldn’t boot! So here are the step by step instructions:

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