Author Archives: Krusty Ruffle

I was born on the rim of a collapsing galaxy, dragged ruthlessly through time and space I have now landed on this little rock and am in the process of discovering what is the meaning of ‘42′. I realize that nothing matters and nobody is real, but I still have trouble convincing myself that I can walk on hot coals, or even cold water so I suppose I will just take small steps towards enlightenment and hope that I end that journey before the universe loses it’s continuity and becomes a fragment of a lost dream.

Oh yeah, this is my site, I hope you don’t hate it…

Ultimate Home Server - Serious Hardware Crash

September 12, 2008 – 2:29 am

Seriously… Unrecoverable crash. Oh well, I was getting tired of fighting with it anyway and now I can move on. Instead of trying to rebuild it I’m just gutting the useful parts out of it, and several other old computers. I’m sending it all away and moving on to what I’ve been wanting to do [...]

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Ultimate Home Server - Nasty Xen Bug - Time went backwards!

August 1, 2008 – 11:43 pm

Ouch!! Today I was installing and setting up kerberos, trying to set things up so that I could log into any of the computers here with SSH and no passwords. Anyway, there came a point where I decided to reboot the server, it was the first time I had rebooted in a while, and when [...]

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Ultimate Home Server - Preseeding Network Installs

July 31, 2008 – 2:37 pm

Okay, this took a lot of trial and error testing. There seems to be two ways of getting information passed to the installer when netbooting, and both have different strengths and weaknesses. First we have kickstart files, which seem to be somewhat lacking in support in ubuntu. Then we also have preseeding, which is supported [...]

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Ultimate Home Server - apt-mirror & PXE install server

July 31, 2008 – 3:32 am

I was originally thinking of using apt-cacher for this, and I’m sure it would be a more bandwidth friendly solution, but I had some issues with using it for local installs and had already used apt-mirror to build an entire mirror before I figured out what the problem was. Considering that I already had 30 [...]

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Ultimate Home Server - Apache2, SSL, user directories & SFTP

July 23, 2008 – 10:12 pm

Today I’m posting about LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL & PHP) servers. I’m going to set one up with HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) on port 80, HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer) on port 443, user directories that have access to both protocols, and SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) for those users. I’m doing [...]

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