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A friend of mine give me better rules for jesred. You can now browse the repository in the browser:
regex ^http://((.*)archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/(dists|pool)/.*(deb|bz2|Release|Release.gpg))$ http://apt-cacher:3142/\1
regex ^http://(security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/(dists|pool)/.*(deb|bz2|Release|Release.gpg))$ http://apt-cacher:3142/\1
Thanks Jerôme!

At work, I now have around 50 desktops running Ubuntu and around 40 servers (including customers machines) also running Ubuntu. As you can imagine, when you have a security update of X, this represents a lot of bandwith usage! Not to speak about Hardy upgrade! We started to look at different solutions to optimize our [...]

I guess everybody has already read it, but Ubuntu has released a new release : 8.04 (8 for 2008, 4 for april). Note that this release is a LTS release (Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server only, Kubuntu and orther derivates are not ong term surpport release). As a result, you can upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 (aka [...]

Yesterday I was talking about Ubuntu advertisings on youtube, today, there is an Ubuntu Server advertising on slashdot :

Canonical is pushing hard Ubuntu Server those days (a lot of cool specs have been written for hardy), and that’s a very good thing for the server platform!

Gerry Carr (Canonical marketing manager) just announced on the Ubuntu marketing mailing list two advertisings for the Ubuntu Server edition. Some US business and IT-related websites show the videos. Here are the videos on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkMlCeDu-0c&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6L51uZjaZU&feature=related
See the complete announce.

One of the thing I should have done on the 18th of october, is blogging about the new Ubuntu release : 7.10, codename Gutsy Gibbon. No need to make another list of new (great) features included in the release, I would like to talk about the server team.
During gutsy cycle, Canonical have hired a bunch [...]

Yes, I know I should have blog more frequently during the past months. I have been really busy at work (do to company growing and growing). Well, I have migrated to the latest and greatest Wordpress release, updated my theme (the old one was broken during the upgrade), and better configured my blog : it [...]

During Ubuntu Live in Portland, Canonical (the Ubuntu main sponsor) announced the availability of Landscape a tool for Canonical support customers.
This tool was designed to manage your IT infrastructure: all your servers/desktops/laptops are configurable through a web interface. The web interface also permit to get an inventory (hardware and software), to monitor them, etc. For [...]

I have just discovered during the last days that MSN was filtering the content of the messages we sent. On his blog, Nion explains in details what’s going on. To make it brief, we can’t send anymore URL/mail addresses that ends with “.info”. Sadly, my domaines ends with… “.info”. I don’t use too much [...]

Cendio has recently released in OpenSource a component called “seamlessrdp”. The difference with opening a session with rdesktop on a Windows server it that individual application is integrated in your environement.
You need two components : a component on the server side, another on the client side. On the client side, rdesktop superior to 1.5 get [...]