When setting up an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) with SSL: Error: “Error: Invalid Private Key” when attempting to upload your keyfile to Amazon EC2 Fix: Convert the key to a format that ELB likes with the command: openssl rsa -in somekeyfile.key -outform PEM edit: I got this message today “Error: Unable to parse certificate.” when… Continue reading Error/Fix: Error: Invalid Private Key with Amazon ELB
Author: AltJ
AWS customer service
I must admit I’m a bit surprised. This morning, I tweeted about a DNS issues I was seeing on some EC2 instances (which turned out to be a Godaddy problem) Amazon responded to my tweet by opening up a support case: Hello, I am sorry to hear that you are having issues with DNS Services,… Continue reading AWS customer service
vi: change all uppercase to lowercase (and vice-versa)
It’s easy to change from uppercase to lowercase in vi! :%s/.*/\L&/ or to change from lowercase to uppercase :%s/.*/\U&/
Raspberry Pi case made from cardboard, cardstock, paper or plastic
A few months ago I designed a case for my Raspberry Pi that I could cut out of cardstock with a Silhouette Cameo. (this case is cut out of an overhead projector slide) It was inspired by the Punnet case. Except I wanted something that didn’t require glue to assemble and was a little… Continue reading Raspberry Pi case made from cardboard, cardstock, paper or plastic
Remove a stuck DVD/CD from a MacBook Pro
So, I burn a fresh CD in my MacBook Pro and it gets stuck. When I hit the eject key, it tries to come out but only pokes out a couple of millimeters before getting sucked back in. Searching all over the internet, Mac users were useless for helping me. Everyone suggested alternate ways to… Continue reading Remove a stuck DVD/CD from a MacBook Pro
Error/Fix: ‘SSLv2_method’ undeclared here (not in a function)
When building ruby 1.9.2 on Ubuntu 11.10 Error: ossl_ssl.c:110:1: error: ‘SSLv2_method’ undeclared here (not in a function) ossl_ssl.c:111:1: error: ‘SSLv2_server_method’ undeclared here (not in a function) ossl_ssl.c:112:1: error: ‘SSLv2_client_method’ undeclared here (not in a function) make[1]: *** [ossl_ssl.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/username/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.2-p180/ext/openssl’ make: *** [mkmain.sh] Error 1 Fix: rvm pkg install openssl rvm… Continue reading Error/Fix: ‘SSLv2_method’ undeclared here (not in a function)
Uninstalling Google packages from Ubuntu
So, you installed an app from Google (Chrome or Google Music Manager) but are done with it and now you want to remove any traces of the Google software… You’d think that sudo dpkg -p <packagename> would do it but Google’s a little more sneaky than that… They took the liberty of adding their repository… Continue reading Uninstalling Google packages from Ubuntu
OfficeMax Coupon Code
Another OfficeMax Coupon code. It’s good for $30 off your online purchase of $150 or more. Expires 12/17/2011 ZAH4HYK3UH8TXHBB Please post a comment here if you use it so that others won’t waste their time trying.
Error/Fix: Disable byobu (screen) from automatically starting on login (EC2)
Error: If you run Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) on Amazon EC2, you may notice an annoying “feature” that they enabled on this release. A byobu session is started when you login. Fix: Fortunately, this is easy to fix: rm /etc/profile.d/Z98-byobu.sh Note: Also fortunate, this will not be the case for future releases as it has… Continue reading Error/Fix: Disable byobu (screen) from automatically starting on login (EC2)
Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot post-install checklist
Here are a few things that I typically do after installing Oneiric Ocelot… sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras sudo apt-get install libdvdread4 sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh sudo dpkg -P ubuntuone-client libsyncdaemon-1.0-1 ubuntuone-client-gnome ubuntuone-control-panel libubuntuone-1.0-1 libubuntuone1.0-cil banshee-extension-ubuntuonemusicstore command-not-found ubuntuone-control-panel-gtk sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get install gimp gimp-data-extras gimp-plugin-registry sudo apt-get install git subversion build-essential nscd gnucash jets3t lm-sensors openjdk-6-jdk… Continue reading Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot post-install checklist