Maintenance

I edited my cdmirror script to accommodate building a PXE-boot bundle using a configurable target distro (it used to only build the current LTS, but now I can set it to build any distro) so I can now do tests on PXE builds of the soon-to-be-released… Read More

It looks like the apt-mirror script project is dead. The repo directory structure has changed since 2018 and when I added 20.04 to the mirror it did not download a bunch of stuff. So, I'm testing debmirror. Which also has problems, but is still being… Read More

It's really 1 command - 2 if you don't already have a key. If you *don't* have a key already, create one with: where ${REMOTE_USER} is your login name and ${REMOTE_HOST} is a machine name or IP address of the remote machine (like myserver.uvic.ca). I… Read More

Static sites often require a CORS- and AJAX-supporting server to function properly, so it's helpful to run one locally. This is the script I've put together for doing that: # This was created based on info from various online instructions sites. # First… Read More

The new machines (NUC8) support WOL but only in S3 or S4 sleep. Right now I've got suspend/hibernate disabled so WOL won't work on the new machines. This is on the todo list. Read More

For the last couple of weeks I've been noticing some very weird behaviour in the two Jenkins build jobs where the svn repo has GitHub externals. The projects simply build all the time, whether or not there's been any change to any of the repos (svn or… Read More