Archive for August, 2005
gromit
Not
Posted: August 29th, 2005 under Linux.
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Boot speedup days
The speedup continues
When importing my blog I thought that these were served better by pointing it to an aggregated
Posted: August 22nd, 2005 under Linux.
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Debian repository
I now have a private Debian repository. This contains packages that I’ve packaged up but not uploaded into Debian proper. This is probably for one of several reasons:
it’’s very rough packaging
source code only (due to licensing restraints)
due to the lack of time I currently spend on Debian I feel it’s not right to [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2005 under Linux.
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Racks
I”m talking the 19″ wide variety that you put servers etc in. They seem to vary greatly in quality - unfortunately some customers seem to get really cheap and nasty ones.
First of all, some comments. There are two types of rack - comms rack and server racks. Comms rack are for network [...]
Posted: August 20th, 2005 under Idea, Linux Rants.
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DRBD (network mirroring)
Just got DRBD up and running. This is basically RAID-1 over the network and it stands for Distributed Replicated Block Device. So, I setup the mirror, forced the initial sync, then created a FS on one node, copied files into it, then swapped primary and secondary around, remounted FS on the second node [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2005 under Linux.
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Interview #1
Went okay I think. It’s not easy to have a decent technical interview unless you have alot of time to setup scenarios so you can plonk someone in front of the box and say “have a go”.
Kudos to John for asking one of the nastiest Unix questions “how can you tell what runlevel you [...]
Posted: August 16th, 2005 under Life.
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Interviews
‘.. and so it begins (
Posted: August 13th, 2005 under Life.
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Freaky
Have a look at this
Posted: August 10th, 2005 under Amusements.
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Anti spam
Well I’m sure you have all noticed spammers are getting more desperate. Anyone who buys stuff from people sending emails with such mangle text or random phrases is asking to be ripped off.
In fact, as reported by
Posted: August 4th, 2005 under Idea, Linux.
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Linux kernel modules for the uninitiated
Well, I managed to get myself volunteered to present a talk at the upcoming Hampshire Linux User Group
Posted: August 2nd, 2005 under HantsLUG, Linux.
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