Author Archives: Al
So, “Murder, She Wrote” came out on Blu-ray
If there’s one stupid fact to know about me then it’s that I love “Murder, She Wrote”. Yes, I know Yes, that “Murder, She Wrote”. The one with Angela Lansbury (except when it wasn’t). The one that ran from 1984 … Continue reading
Munin custom email notifications
I’ve been using Munin for myself to replace Cacti and been generally liking it. As someone who has used Cacti for a long time I never seem to get my head around it totally. Something would go wrong and it … Continue reading
Exim & Dovecot mailserver with Active Directory
Following on from getting Debian working with Active Directory for account authorisation I had need to set up Exim with Dovecot for a mail server. Obviously I want to use the Active Directory to keep all the accounts as before, … Continue reading
Acronym overload: Migrating Xen PVM hosts to KVM HVM hosts
I have a server I’ve been using which does not have hardware virtualisaton (HVM). On this I’ve been using Xen paravirtualisation (PVM). This is all well and good, except the server is approaching six years old and I’ve a shiney … Continue reading
Fun with KVM on Squeeze
Have recently received a server from a friend which I’m going to be using to replace my existing one. It’s currently running a handful of virtual hosts with Xen using paravirtualisation. The new server has hardware virtualisation so I thought … Continue reading
