Sometimes you just don't want to use GitHub. Maybe it's the cost for setting up private repositories, or maybe you don't trust them enough. Whatever the reason might be, setting up a private repository is actually really easy.

In this post I demonstrate how I used Gogs to setup a …

In my last post I demonstrated compiling Ruby from source and building an RPM for it using FPM.

This works great and it's a major timesaver, but FPM allows you to take this one step further and even build RPMs out of Ruby Gems.

Here's how I did it:

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While it looks like that lots of people are moving towards using Docker, sometimes having a complete lightweight virtual machine can be just as useful - Docker is meant to be a per process virtualizer. Although it can be used as a virtual machine, it's discouraged.

I have lots of positive …

Almost all modern systems come with more than 1 core. Why not get a significant performance gain from any application that uses gzip and bzip2 simply by switching to their multi-core cousins?

Wait, how do I know that I have more than one core on my host?

Easy! Use the …

As I add more and more posts I figured it's a shame to have to make people register with Opera to comment. So for now, I am switching the settings of the blog, so that anonymous comments can be added.

So, go ahead and comment as much as you like …

I love LEGOS. More than I would usually admit. This photo serves as proof.

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Doing work on setting up my own IMAP server, naturally on FreeBSD. This is now complete.

Have been researching for 2 weeks now Jabber chat servers.

Expect a review soon and an article on …

I first used FreeBSD on a real project for my final year project while at the University of Portsmouth. The project was simply called 'A Web-Based Interface for the Dummynet traffic shaper'. This was back in 2006. The purpose of that project was to use the Dummynet traffic shaper to …