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TL;DR The Administrator setup for Google Apps Migration guide makes things look pretty straightforward, but it’s much, much more complicated. What should be just a couple of check boxes turned out to be a twisty turny journey through hidden menus littered across distant parts of the administrators console. Background The move from CohesiveFT to Cohesive Networks […]
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Tags: API, email, gapps, google, Google Apps, howto, IMAP, mail, migration, Outlook
I fell into a trap with my new Gen 8 Microservers like this: Install 60 day trial license for iLO Advanced Update BIOS date/time Find that trial license has now expired :( There really should be some sort of warning on the license page (and maybe also the serial/password tag) to say update your clock […]
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Tags: default, factory, Gen8, HP, iLO, Microserver, reset
OpenWRT on TP-Link WR-703N
The TP-Link WR-703N is a nice, hackable pocket WiFi router. I’ve seen them put to some interesting purposes, but I didn’t own one until yesterday when the kind folk at QCon Shanghai gave me one. I’m not a fan of factory TP-Link firmware at the best of times, but more so when it defaults to […]
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Tags: ethernet, lan, OpenWRT, TL-WR703N, TP-Link, wan, wifi, WR703N
Fun with Flocker
Before writing my InfoQ story about Flocker I ran through my now usual process of getting my 3 tier demo[1] working on it (in addition to running through the getting started guide[2]). What I found is that Flocker doesn’t yet support multi container apps, but then it is only at release 0.1 (and proper multi […]
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Tags: database, demo, Docker, Flocker, howto, link, MySQL, three tier
Just as I did with Fig I had a go at composing my three tier demo app with CenturyLink’s Panamax as I was writing my InfoQ piece on the launch. You can see the resulting todomvc.pmx template file in GitHub (and see that it’s very similar to my fig.yml), but it’s a visual tool, so let’s […]
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Tags: demo, Docker, Panamax, three tier
TL;DR If you’re a Three customer using a 4G capable device abroad with their Feel at Home free international roaming then you may have to manually select 3G as the network preference in order to get a data connection. Update 1: Terence Eden provides a telco insider explanation what what’s going on (or should that be […]
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Tags: 3G, 4G, data, feel at home, no service, roaming, Three
Boot2Docker on Hyper-V
Boot2Docker is a minimal (27MB) Linux image for running Docker. I started using it yesterday whilst investigating Docker on Mac OS X. It’s designed to work with VirtualBox, and comes with a script to control the lifecycle of the Boot2Docker VM inside of VirtualBox. There’s no reason however why it shouldn’t be used with other […]
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Tags: boot2docker, Docker, Docker.io, persistence, VHD
Multi tier apps in Docker.io
Docker provides the means to link containers, which comes in two parts: Outside the container (on the docker command line) a ‘-link name:ref’ is used to create a link to a named container. Inside the container environment variables REF_… are populated with IP addresses and ports. Having linked containers together it’s then necessary to have a little […]
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Tags: address, app server, database, Docker, Docker.io, Dockerfile, enviornment, link, linking, MySQL, Nginx, port, Ruby, Sinatra, SSL, ToDoMVC, web server
OpenWRT on TP-Link TL-WR2543ND
If you want to dive straight into install instructions then head over to the TP-Link TL-WR2543ND article on the OpenWRT Wiki. Why? When my son smashed the screen on my iPad 2 I think he also damaged the WiFi antenna. I had to be just about be sitting on top of a 2.4Ghz hotspot to get […]
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Tags: 2.4GHz, 5GHz, 802.11a, firmware, gigabit, OpenWRT, router, serial, switch, TL-WR2543ND, TP-Link
Pi Pandora over the Pond
A friend of mine recently returned from working in the US for 3 years, where he’d got to like listening to Internet radio using Pandora. He wanted to get things set up so that he could listen to Pandora on his kitchen stereo. Challenge #1 – be in the US Pandora uses IP geolocation to […]
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Tags: OpenVPN, Pandora, proxy, Raspberry Pi, RPi, SSH, tunnel
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