I went to update my Nagios server running Ubuntu Server 8.04 and received a 404 error when I tried to update the repositories. Something along the lines of 404 Not Found [IP: xx.xx.xx.xx]. Obviously, 8.04 is EOL so I guess when that happens they also move the official repositories too. Fix it with the following. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list Replace all references of archive.ubuntu.com with old-releases.ubuntu.com ...

Another I’m going to post because I’ll forget…I was messing around with Amazon EC2 and had some minor issues connecting using SSH and PuTTY. Here are the simple steps I used to connect to a CentOS EC2 instance. Open SSH in the Security Groups section of AWS Management Console. Download PuTTY and PuTTYgen. Open PuTTYgen and load the .pem key you downloaded from Amazon when you created the instance. ...

I finally took the plunge and bought my first SSD. Newegg had a sale on the Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB and I decided to get it. After installing Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 and a few drivers, I still have 91GB left. Not too bad and now all I need to do is figure out how to carve out some space to dual boot Linux. Below is my first benchmark, no tweaking but from what I have read with Windows 7 and TRIM enabled, you don’t need any. ...

I don’t purchase a lot of apps for my iPad, but Air Video was one of the few. Air Video streams video to your iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch from a server that runs on Windows or OS X. The thing that impressed me so much was how well the remote access works. I can stream all of my videos from my server at home to my iPad wherever I am as long as I have a WiFi connection. No loops to jump through, SSH to setup, or ports to forward. Performance was flawless even though I was running the server from a virtual machine with a network share to stream my videos, on an iSpot WiFi pipe!. It just flat out works. ...