Category Archives: Open Source

All posts relating to Open Source software, mostly but not exclusively UNIX focused.

Firefox Mobile for Android CAs

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Jethro Carr

I’ve been using Firefox Mobile on Android for a while (thanks to the fact that it means I can use Firefox Sync between my laptop and mobile to share data). Overall it’s pretty good and the last few releases have … Continue reading →

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KVM instances dying at boot

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Jethro Carr

I recently encountered a crashing KVM instance, where my VM would die at boot once the bootloader tried to unpack initrd. A check of the log in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/vmname.log showed the following unhelpful line: Guest moved used index from 6 to … Continue reading →

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Android 4.2.2 Issues

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Jethro Carr

Having just flown from Sydney AU to Christchurch NZ, my Galaxy Nexus suddenly decided to finally offer me the Android 4.2.2 upgrade. Since I got the phone in 2012, it’s been running Android 4.1 – I had expected to receive … Continue reading →

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NamedManager 1.5.1

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Jethro Carr

I’ve pushed a new release of NamedManager version 1.5.1, this release is a minor bug fix release providing: Bug fix for handling of TXT records, where extra slashes would be entered into the record due to an input validator bug. … Continue reading →

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Updated Repositories

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Jethro Carr

I’ve gone and updated my GNU/Linux repositories with a new home page – some of you may have been using this under my previous Amberdms branding, but it’s more appropriate that it be done under my own name these days … Continue reading →

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ip6tables: ipv6-icmp vs icmp

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Jethro Carr

I run a fully dual stacked IPv6+IPv4 network on my servers, VPNs and home network – part of this is that I get to discover interesting new first-adopter pains with living in the future (like Networkmanager/Kernel bugs, Munin being stupid, … Continue reading →

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linux.conf.au: day 5

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Jethro Carr

Final day of linux.conf.au – I’m about a week behind schedule in posting, but that’s about how long it takes to catch up on life following a week at LCA. ;-) Friday’s conference keynote was delivered by Tim Berners-Lee, who … Continue reading →

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linux.conf.au: day 4

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Jethro Carr

Another successful day of Linux geeking has passed, this week is going surprisingly quickly… Some of the days highlights: James Bottomley spoke on the current state of Linux UEFI support and demonstrated the tools and processes to install and manage … Continue reading →

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linux.conf.au: day 3

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Jethro Carr

Having reached mid-week, my morning wakeup is getting increasingly difficult from late nights, thankfully there were large amounts of deep fried potato and coffee readily available. The day had some interesting talks, most of the value I got was out … Continue reading →

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linux.conf.au: day 2

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Jethro Carr

The second day of linux.conf.au has been and gone, was another day of interesting miniconf talks and many geeky discussions with old and new friends. The keynote was a really good talk by Radia Perlman about how engineers approach developing … Continue reading →

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