Now, I might have mentioned in the past that despite me working as a system administrator, I dislike working with actual hardware and prefer to touch machines as soon as they are SSH-ready or at most as soon as an operating system can be installed.

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As of today my contribution to unattended-upgrades has been backported into Ubuntu Trusty Tahr and Ubuntu Precise Pangolin, which are both LTS version currently in use. I’m probably more proud of myself than I should be but it was a great feeling to be of help to a global …

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I’ll admit the bad stuff right away. I’ve been checking in bad code, I’ve had wrong configuration files on our services and it’s happened quite often that files referenced in .pp manifests have had a different name than the one specified or were not moved to …

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For a while now a lot of my time working was spent on preparing the technical part of a Virtual Reality course at ICG. Since the setup was fairly complex I thought a review might be interesting.

• This write-up contains notes on fabric, puppet, apt, dpkg, reprepro, unattended-upgrades, synergy and …

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I’ve wanted to write about my work at university for some time now but I’ve never really sat down and took the time to do that until now.

There are various things I do at the institute, some of which I don’t understand why they are my …

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You may have noticed a certain lack of posts during September. I was kind of occupied, spreading my attention between a little preparation for the next term at university, a lot of media consumption and working on the statistics part of the tagstore project.

Being part of the tagstore team …

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