Category Archives: open source

Workaround for Foreman-Proxy Scale Issue: DHCPD and lots of VM’s

Foreman is an awesome provisioning, utility and life-cycle management solution for Linux and UNIX-like server infrastructure.  It unifies a lot of things like DHCP, DNS, PXE, and automated provisioning into one tool.  Unfortunately we’ve hit some issues with scaling the … Continue reading →

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Guide: Laptop Hybrid Suspend on Linux

One feature desktop Linux has been lacking out of the box is hybrid-suspend, supported as of Kernel versions 3.6+. The following guide lets you suspend to both memory and disk, so you never lose your work if your battery is … Continue reading →

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Fixing the Atrocious Lenovo Touchpad

Sadly Lenovo got a whiff of Macintosh style fervor and got a little overzealous with their current laptop offerings, resulting in a really irritating button-less laptop design. Luckily, you can revert this to be usable like the older models using … Continue reading →

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