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Recently I needed to upgrade the Cyrus installation at Ghent university because of a security exploit.  However after doing the upgrade to 2.4.13 we hit a bug that affacted users who were using a specific naming for their folders.  More specific when you had a space in the folder name and a subfolders of that folder that had the same prefix.

I've pushed a puppet module to Github that you can use to set up your own private Debian mirror.  Go check it out on https://github.com/rgevaert/puppet-debianmirror.
To use it you should include the debianmirror class.  You can optionally set some parameters.  The module uses apt-mirror and it mirrors by default the architecture you are running.  If you want to mirror extra architectures you can define them with the architectures parameter.
class {
'debianmirror':

I took the time to change my blog to use Drupal7, instead of some ancient version of Wordpress.

At work we purchased two Dell Powervaults MD3200.  To configure them you need to install the management software.  Like always the software is only supported on Windows, Redhat Enterprise Linux or Suse enterprise Linux.  The management software is in fact written in Java.

Below I document how to install the management software on a Debian Squeeze machine. I based my work on the a howto by Laurent Coustet

I finally took the plunge.  I published two puppet modules on forge.puppetlabs.com. The first module is pwgen.  This is a very simple module, it makes sure the pwgen package is installed.  However what makes it special, is it has a function that will generate a random password.

I'm really eager to use Vagrant to easily set up virtual machines for testing purposes.  However I'm using KVM with libvirt and virt-manager.  Although I think VirtualBox is nice software, I'm not feeling comfortable with the license of the VirtualBox extension.  I'm looking forward to Vagrant supporting libvirt.

In the mean time I wanted to automatically install Debian machines.  I have experience with FAI, and am using it at work.  I have known about preseeding the Debian installer but have never used it.

Voor een renovatie in het Gentse.

But don't blame me!  I'm trying to upgrade my Flickr account and their payment system is broken!

This nice Openoffice Calc macro can convert a spread sheet to a LaTeX table.

http://calc2latex.sourceforge.net/

Nice!