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I thought I'd document the steps I did to set up a central git repository to which I can push to and pull from for various projects (including the Aegir components), as well as have the repositories sync from the CVS repository on drupal.org regularly.

Before I begin: I'm normally quite verbose and careful with my howtos. However, due to most unwelcome Nagios alerts at 3am on a Sunday morning, I've been awake for about 19 or 20 hours straight. Apologies for any errors with the following instructions, or steps I've missed :)

I bought a 3 Prepaid mobile broadband Internet USB key modem so that I'm able to hook my eeePC up to the net wherever I am.. sometimes one is in between source and destination and needs to re-attach screen and fix a problem that Nagios has alerted one to :)

Update: So I just discovered that the installation of Ulteo wiped out my Apache default vhost config in sites-enabled.. which was serving other stuff on my machine. Be very, very careful, as I don't see this in the documentation anywhere...

I've installed Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop on my home Debian server to check it out.. I read about Ulteo quite some time ago, when Gaël Duval announced the project after being sacked by Mandriva. Essentially it is a virtualisation solution, but differs from others in that the virtualised desktop runs inside a browser window.

Here's a quick howto on installing Laconica on Debian 5.0 (Lenny) with a PostgreSQL database backend.

Here's a good one.

dns2 is primary nameserver for a local zone 'servers.datacentre.foo'. Running Debian Lenny, bind9, nothing unusual. Update this zone to add a Xen guest recently provisioned at the datacentre. Reload dns with rndc reload, the updated zone is transferred to the slave nameserver, which is dns1 (yeah I don't know why either, what's in a name).