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Maven tweaks continued…

By Ken | Published: July 23, 2009
In a previous post I mentioned using the settings.xml file to force maven to use a local repository. In my case this is Jfrog’s Artifactory. This was accomplished using the “mirror” element in the settings.xml file (example). While most of our artifacts are downloaded from the “central” repository. Some of them have dependencies that are [...]
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READYNAS NV+ Kernel Out of memory

By Ken | Published: June 16, 2009
Decided recently to pick up a Readynas NV+ to supplement our file storage at the office. I have the Readynas Duo at home and have been quite happy with it. It is a linux based NAS appliance and after installing a few add-ons you can have a remote root shell and apt packages to install [...]
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TemPageR 3E environment monitor

By Ken | Published: May 18, 2009
Recently ran into some heat issues in a mini computer room that has a window in direct line of the sun and problematic HVAC. Picked up a network enabled environment monitor so I could have some data to show when trying to get the issues resolved. Originally I was thinking about getting the Websensor [...]
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Overriding the default maven repository

By Ken | Published: May 15, 2009
If you are using maven for builds or dependency management you will notice that by default maven always attempts to pull dependencies from the public maven repository (repo1). After reading documentation and examples I thought you could easily override this by specifying a local repository in your respective project object model file (pom.xml). Example. Not the [...]
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This RRD was created on other architecture

By Ken | Published: April 27, 2009
I use Munin for some graphing of system and application stats. Like most graphing open source projects its based on the widely used RRDTool. I recently was moving my munin instance from a xen instance on 64bit Ubuntu install, to a bare metal 32bit install. Moving munin consists of the moving the munin.conf file and moving [...]
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CUWiN Homer Mesh Project

By Ken | Published: December 13, 2007
The CUWiN folks spent some time recently adding new equipment to the Homer mesh network. My company Metrix has provided them with all the gear for this project to provide the Village of Homer with a low cost tubes.
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New Digs

By Ken | Published: July 31, 2007
Alot of things have happened in 2007 with my company. We completely revamped our online store to start of the year, we have added a ton of new products and we moved in to a new address located on pine in Capitol Hill. June 16th marked an entire year since I left my full time [...]
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Novatel Merlin u730 HSPDA Card in Linux

By Ken | Published: January 21, 2007
Decided to try and get a friend’s u730 cellular data card working in Pyramid Linux last night. I thought it would pretty trivial since the card appears to use the same chipset as other EVDO/HSPDA cards already supported in the airprime module. But it turns out the device/vendor id combo is not in airprime. This [...]
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Soekris PXE installs via LiveCD and Pyramid 1.0b4

By Ken | Published: December 20, 2006
Just sent this email to the Pyramid Linux mailing list. Make a long story short there is a new image of Pyramid available. As well as a live CD that can PXE bootstrap and install the following Operating Systems on Soekris (and potentially other) hardware: Pyramid Linux M0n0Wall PfSense CuWin AstLinux
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Toorcon Workshop

By Ken | Published: September 14, 2006
Myself and Matt will be doing a workshop at Toorcon 8. It will be a one day workshop covering the basics of boot strapping an embedded wireless device ( Soekris based ) and setting up a wireless mesh using OLSR. Participants in the class get an embedded wireless device from my company Metrix that they [...]
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