Discovering the Chromebook

As I have been beginning to explore the Chromebook I have started building a list of different commands and thought it may be useful to publish them. I will try to keep this updated as I go. About Commands The following will give you a listing of different about: pages that you can get to by typing them in the browser. There seemed to be some good areas for basic networking information, system information and access to experimental features. about:about To access/enable experimental features type the following into the url bar. These commands may change over time. about:flags Keyboard Shortcuts …

Chromebook Enterprise?

This last week I was given a very nice surprise by a guy I work with when he presented me with a Chromebook. He had been trying to use it for a while but found that he tended to favor his iPad and it really wasnt getting the miles to make it useful. So here we are….. Sitting here writing this article with this Chromebook in my lap I guess I am thinking, now what?… From what I have heard this seems to be peoples first opinion but I am convinced that it wont be my only opinion. First of …

GIT Hosting with gitolite

Setting up GIT hosting using gitolite This is my first git server and after some reading I decided to build gitolite to manage my git repositories. To begin building we need to generate a public/private key pair on your workstation and then we need to download and install gitolite from github since gitolite is not currently available in my servers distribution (Ubuntu 10.04). Alternately, you could install gitolite from your distribution (but that may change these instructions a bit). From your workstation First I generated a DSA keypair on my workstation. $ ssh-keygen -t dsa Generating public/private dsa key pair. …

Transitioning Subversion to GIT

So it has been a long time coming, I have heard about the benefits of GIT for a while now but have not had time to play with it much. So far I am looking forward to improvements in performance over SVN as well as a more secure implementation to share sections of my repository with colleagues. Lastly I hope at a later date to circle around and build out an active directory/ldap enabled config and to start using GIT to manage Linux configurations; but first I need to get my data out of Subversion. To begin we need to …