Posts Tagged ‘Debian

I previously wrote about “Installing Java & MySQL – unattended/non-interactive installation”. Whilst using slack, I have been running apt-get during postinstall rather than preinstall. Files are transferred from slack after preinstall as such transferring any files that conflict with the packages configuration files, apt-get will prompt regardless of DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive. Not ideal if your trying to […]

This is something I commonly have to run and always seem to forget. In order to run unattended. Java 6 installation on Ubuntu add-apt-repository “deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -s -c) partner” apt-get update echo “sun-java6-jdk shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1 select true” | debconf-set-selections echo “sun-java6-jre shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1 select true” | debconf-set-selections DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive aptitude install -y -f sun-java6-jre sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jdk Java […]

I Spent a little while yesterday investigating why memcached causes problems with multigets returning results and ended up comparing debian vs ubuntu. I tested from virtual machines and physical hardware of relative specs. I have also tried a combination of libmemcached libraries and tuned the tcp stack, however here are some of the results from […]


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I have been a developer for roughly 10 years and have worked with an extensive range of technologies. Whilst working for relatively small companies, I have worked with all aspects of the development life cycle, which has given me a broad and in-depth experience.

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