devops

Raspberry Pi as NAS with Samba

Pere Villega published on
14 min, 2759 words

This year I’ve bought a Raspberry Pi. I’ve wanted to play with it for a long time, but it was one of these things you keep delaying as I wasn’t sure what to use it for. After moving to London, and given that my NAS died, I found myself in need of a replacement, one that allowed me to install Crashplan on it if possible (for cloud backup).

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Ubuntu Server Maintenance

Pere Villega published on
7 min, 1358 words

This guide will show some basic stuff you might need to maintain an Ubuntu server. You might not need all of them, but thy are handy enough and I’ve had to use them at least once.

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Redmine on Ubuntu 9.04 with NGinx

Pere Villega published on
9 min, 1759 words

Originally I wanted to install Launchpad on my server to manage my projects. As of 17th of August of 2009, Launchpad is not yet ready for production. The only way to install it is using an script, only available for Ubuntu 9.04, which doesn’t work too well on a server. I’ll keep an eye on it as I like the way Canonical does things (and applications), but in the meantime I decided to use Redmine as I found Trac lacking on some areas.

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