November 1, 2014

Amiga Top Five

I was thinking recently about the amount of time I spent playing games when I was younger. I don’t have as much appetite any longer for playing games. The only game I play now is Team Fortress 2, and even that very irregularly. The only game that would probably take me back into the market is Half Life 3… So, to archive my gaming childhood, I decided to put together the accompanying list.

October 15, 2014

Vagrant and Puppet setup

This summer during my holidays in Romania I looked into Vagrant. I had some time during the due to the heat, undertaking my own siesta without the sleep. My path to to Vagrant was slightly oblique, as I had been looking to test out Puppet. I had been using VirtualBox virtual machines as an integral part of my development and testing process for some time. The promise of making this an automated and scripted process for my development environment appealed to me.

January 15, 2014

New Rig

As a sort of follow up to the article here I decided to continue to attempt to scratch my Linux itch. Reasoning that maybe virtual machines aren’t a fair reflection of a system’s capabilities I went and bought a little netbook. I went for a little Acer Aspire in the January sales. This is a relatively cheap model, but it was the Christmas break so I had a little bit of time to kill.

November 13, 2013

Grunt setup

This article might be helpful to anybody who satisfies the following criteria: Wants to run Grunt On a Mac Running Linux through VirtualBox Using a shared folder for the directory you want to install packages If this describes your situation, you probably have run into errors installing the local version of Grunt through npm The reason for these errors might be that your Shared Folder doesn’t actually support symlinks. This was a change in v1.

October 31, 2013

Pure-ftpd virtual users

Long ago I attempted to setup my first FTP daemon on linux. One point that constantly caused me issues was how to setup users. The basic setup I wanted was for an FTP user to be able to login, upload some files and the web server to serve them. When I was first looking at this I was thinking in terms of real users. This issue with this was that the real user would have real file permissions.