One of those posts for myself in case I need to come back to this later

I have a new PC which is very fast apart from problems with disc access seeming slow (and the disks being physically noisy)

The following related links led me to try a solution

The music player banshee which is part of the default Ubuntu setup pops up a message each time a new track starts playing.

To turn this off

Historical note : Hudson is what Jenkins was called a long time ago.

I want the drupal user uploaded files to be manageable by both apache and a non-root user

In my case I’m using hudson to rebuild the site with data and “files” from live periodically.

It wasn’t immediately obvious to me

What I needed to do to get bluetooth audio working was to install the blueman package

The default configuration of varnish logs every request twice, once for the client and once for the backend communication

edit the line in /etc/init.d/varnishncsa to something like

To setup an IP based access control list so that only allowed users may access the site.

Installing Ubuntu on a new netbook proved remarkably easy once I got past a couple of hurdles

I’m using varnish to cache a REST service that’s slow enough to cause me grief in development.

Out of the box it assumes you are caching your own server and that the client is already using the right host header.

To specify that it should use a host header to match the backend I’m using a config like

When I installed my system I wasn’t quite happy with the way the installer divided my hard disk - but at the time I was in a hurry…

I have since found that repeated loading of databases during development used up all available space in /var and debug files were filling /tmp

So I had to figure out how to resize them.

Every now and again I find I have ssh access to one server - which has access to somewhere I need to get to - but I want direct access (eg to forward an X session)