I am sitting in front of a computer running linux full of files that need to be deleted securely.

Luckily, there’s a simple solution, shred.

After having prepped our new server with KVM I decided to use Opscode Chef instead of installing everything by hand on each VM. There’s good and bad things to say about that.

I bought 8 GB of RAM for 40 Euro at a computer store downtown today and was offered to have it installed into the Mac Book Pro for 20 Euro. Needless to say I chose to do it myself.

Here’s how the laptop looks when you remove the cover:

The whole prodedure takes 5 minutes. Apple shows you how to do it.

And if you go to an Apple Store to have it done you pay a lot. I assume having them put it in for you will cost another 200 USD..

I have been resisting buying a Mac until the end of 2010 when I was working for a client that would have a VPN-configuration that simply would not play well with my Ubuntu. So when the time came to upgrade my laptop I decided to get a MacBook Pro. And of course I never regretted my decision.

Really enjoying jekyll I’ve decided to take things a step further and use Octopress, which builds upon jekyll and a couple other things.

I especially like the code formatting, but the rake-tasks to create new stories are useful, as well.

I’ve recently rented a new server from Hetzner and decided to run virtual machines on it.

Here’s how to set up networking so the vms can connect to the Internet (and the other vms or host) while being reachable from the Internet themselves.

Blogging with Jekyll

I’ve noticed Jekyll some time ago and always wanted to play with it. Now, here it is.

(In case you don’t know: Jekyll is a rubygem that generates a static website from sourcefiles. That’s different from Wordpress, because no special processing takes place when someone visits the blog. The webserver just serves out static files.)