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gromit

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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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Interviews

‘.. and so it begins (

Freaky

Have a look at this

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

Linux kernel modules for the uninitiated

Well, I managed to get myself volunteered to present a talk at the upcoming Hampshire Linux User Group