Decent settings for mbpfan.conf for a MacBook 8,2

Fan-Control-Daemon has been working great for months on my MacBook Pro 8,2 running Ubuntu 13.04 natively but found it getting hotter and hotter all the time. So, I recompiled FCD from source and moved /etc/mbpfan.conf back to default but that really didn’t help. I had to mess with things a little. Of course, you mess [...]

Installing Ubuntu Server 13.04 on an HP DL320e Gen8

I just had the experience of installing Ubuntu Server 13.04 on a new HP DL320e Gen8 server and it was not as easy as it should have been. It’s kind of pain because Ubuntu is not one of the officially supported operating systems from HP on this server model. So, their “Intelligent Provisioning” is worthless [...]

Integrated Spamassassin and Postfix MTA Setup on Ubuntu

The wiki entry on the Spamassassin wiki for the simple setup with Postfix is almost there. I recently setup my 12.04 Ubuntu server with Spamassassin with Postfix and everything is working well. I had to do a few more steps to get it working. Here is what I did.
1. Create the spamfilter.sh script detailed on [...]

Perl 5.16 on Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)

Update 2013-03-29: Caused some chaos with debconf. I have modified the sets a little to fix it.

If you need to move off Perl 5.14 which is the current distro packaged version on Ubuntu 13.04 daily, snag source and compile it. It works. But, I would reccomend leaving the 5.14 in the dkpg system due to [...]

Three Tips To Get VMware Workstation 9 Going on Kernel 3.8.0

First off, if you are trying to get VMware Workstation 9.x to run on a non-supported system or one that really hasn’t even been formally released yet like Ubuntu 13.04 “Raring Ringtail” you need to stop and ask yourself a few questions…

Do you want the drama?
Can you handle the bleeding edge and constant updates through [...]