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Sierra Wireless USB881 3G Modem WAN on WRTSL54GS via OpenWrt Kamikaze

As noted in a previous post National Shame: Swaths of Non-Rural US without Broadband; Time for Re-Divestiture, there is no Cable Modem service or DSL in my neighborhood. Up until a few  months ago, I did have a pretty nice point to point Dual Raido Full Duplex 802.11n connection that could do about 12Mbps symetrical. The only reason I had…

Updating RabbitMQ and RabbitMQ-Stomp to RabbitMQ 1.5.3

I noticed that the rabbitmq-stomp had stopped working on my servers after a reboot. The servers were using the Ubuntu debian package of rabbitmq and had been updgraded to RabbitMQ 1.5.3 and stomp had not since I was manually installing rabbitmq-stomp from the mercurial repositories (cause I could not find any ubuntu packages for rabbitmq-stomp). If you used something similar…

Installing Apache Thrift on Ubuntu and Leopard

The instructions for installing the Apache Thrift on the Wiki missed a few key things in terms of installing on Ubuntu (8.04 in my case) and Macintosh OS X Leopard (10.5.6). Gitting the latest source For instance they show you how to get the latest via SVN or a snapshop via wget. But the wget actually gets it from a…

Cross Domain RESTful AJAX with jQuery and Rails 2.2.2

Flinn Mueller aka actsasflinn wrote an blog post Cross domain RESTful JSON-P with Rails back in July. There he showed how to monkeypatch Rails to allow json-p to do all the REST verbs even when going across domains. He also showed how to make the json-p calls with jquery. A very nice solution that we take advantage of in one…

Installing PoolParty on Mac OS X and Ubuntu

In my search for the ultimate open source tool for deploying our service onto the “Clouds” I am now trying the new PoolParty. (Though I’m finding that the github wiki for PoolParty is a better reference). Its got what seems to be a nice clean Ruby based Domain Specific Language (DSL) and set of unix shell commands for automating the…

HOWTO: Install iClassify on Ubuntu and Mac OS X Leopard

Update: The folks who developed iClassify have come out with a total framework that is an alternative to iClassify/Puppet called opscode-chef. I will be looking into that soon and not do anymore work with iClassify (unless Chef turns out to suck or something, but at first glance it looks pretty good!). [After playing with Chef, my conclusion is forget about…