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xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory

Since I’ve changed my job and joined Rackspace Cloud team I didn’t post anything as I’m still learning new things. Here’s a solution for problems with connecting to xen console. Read more »

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Disable root account [Debian]

One of things I like about Ubuntu is that root’s account is disabled by default and you need to use sudo. Here is how to make Debian work the same way. Read more »

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Ruby on Rails and Ruby Gems on Debian Lenny using backports

There’s a thing about Debian… it’s super stable, but the devs always want newer software, so if they need Ruby you have a choice of compiling it from source as I previously described here or better using the Debian Backports.

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XBMC Movie sorting and “The”

When I started to play with XBMC and imported all of my DVDs they were sorted with all “The ..” under T.

This isn’t surprising however there is a simple way to make the sorting ignore “The ..”.

Just create a file called advancedsettings.xml in your XBMC/userdata folder. This folder is app specific, more about this here.


<advancedsettings>
	<sorttokens>
		<token>the</token>
	</sorttokens>
</advancedsettings>

And here’s how it’s with the file:

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Phusion Passenger, Nginx and multiple location rules

I’m fairly new to Nginx. I found an very odd problem? with setting up passenger under nginx. Apparently if I define rules for specific locations I have to enable passenger per location. Here is example config:
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