Artur Krzywanski

The ballooning daemon is not running

Artur — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:51:21 +0000

That’s the funniest err I’ve seen so far in XenServer. But here’s how to fix it. When you try to start vm you get this: user@computer:$ xe vm-start name-label=vm1The server failed to handle your request, due to an internal error. …

How to install Etherpad on Debian

Artur — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:12:33 +0000

Etherpad is a hosted web service that allows really real-time document collaboration for groups of users. It’s like Google Docs, or perhaps Google Docs is like Etherpad on steroids ? Anyway, if you’re looking for a secure real-time document sharing …

Load balanced puppet dashboard

Artur — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:41:32 +0000

Puppet dashboard is a useful tool in terms of reporting and actually seeing what’s going on with your puppets. The things get a bit tricky when you have hundreds of nodes reporting every 5 minutes or so and running dashboard …

How to make mission control faster

Artur — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:35:11 +0000

Yes Apple, all those animations in Lion are awesome but do they have to take so long ? If You prefer the Mission Control (btw, Expose was way better) to ‘animate’ faster: Enable faster animation user@computer:$ defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration …

XBMC + MediaPortal TV Server

Artur — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:38:59 +0000

I’m working on adding TV support and making my XBMC installation a true Media Centre (including PVR support). The thing about XBMC is that sadly it doesn’t support Live TV features by default but there are ways to get live …

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

Artur — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:47:37 +0000

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. When you run this command to open the VM console: …

Disable root account [Debian]

Artur — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:01:14 +0000

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. Install SUDO user@computer:$ apt-get install sudo Add yourself to …

Ruby on Rails and Ruby Gems on Debian Lenny using backports

Artur — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:21:34 +0000

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. …

XBMC Movie sorting and “The”

Artur — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:07:59 +0000

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 …

Phusion Passenger, Nginx and multiple location rules

Artur — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:04:48 +0000

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: server { server_name www.example.co.uk; …