Archive for the “gentoo” category
VirtualBox, Gentoo and serial consoles
by Kenneth Kalmer on September 30, 2009
More as a reminder to myself for when I need this again, but I’m sure everyone needs this at least once. Having screwed up my kernel configs for my VirtualBox Gentoo image, I needed a serial console to catch the (…)
Ruby Enterprise Edition on Gentoo with newer OpenSSL (>0.9.8i)
by Kenneth Kalmer on April 21, 2009
UPDATE 2009-04022: Ruby Enterprise Edition 20090421 released a couple of hours after the original post. Now includes the OpenSSL patch from Gentoo’s Portage. UPDATE: The upcoming release of Ruby Enterprise Edition might include the suggested patch, if we get enough (…)
MySQL Replication Client with SSL, gotcha
by Kenneth Kalmer on September 8, 2008
As part of the PowerDNS on Rails project, and improving our own DNS infrastructure, I sat out today to configure 4 new DNS servers around the world. This will move a lot of our DNS traffic out of South Africa, (…)
Firefox 3 and the apparent random SSL errors
by Kenneth Kalmer on July 2, 2008
Strange days we live in, especially when our browsers trip of bugs in encryption libraries on the servers… David Smalley neatly pointed out how upgrading OpenSSL to at least 0.9.8h solves the cryptic Firefox 3 SSL errors we’ve been seeing (…)
