The $49 Cubieboard is a slightly more expensive, but better suited for duty as an HTPC option to the raspberry pi. It even has an IR receiver built in. Specifications below. 1G ARM cortex-A8 processor, NEON, VFPv3, 512KB L2 cache Continue reading
rpm -q -a –qf “%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n” | sort -k1,1n
brandon-mbpro:~ brandon$ host more.net more.net has address 198.209.253.10 more.net has IPv6 address 2610:e0:1:50:198:209:253:168 more.net mail is handled by 5 smtp.more.net. MARK – this is the 1st time I have seen a hostname resolve to an ipv6 address out in the Continue reading
The Boxee beta was introduced today around 7:00 PM eastern via a webcast. Link.
pgrep, pkill – look up or signal processes based on name and other attributes
These instructions detail compiling and installing freeswitch under centos 5.x. It should be noted that this was done successfully under a xen vm hosted at linode. yum -y install subversion autoconf automake libtool gcc-c++ ncurses-devel make mkdir /usr/src/freeswitch cd /usr/src/freeswitch Continue reading
I migrated dacrib.net from a shared hosting instance provided by a friend at hostrocket, to a xen instance on linode.com today. So far so good. Things left to do: 1. set up a cron for offsite backups to somewhere else Continue reading
1. vim /etc/apt/source.list.d/zfs-fuse.list add deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/brcha/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/brcha/ubuntu intrepid main 2. update sudo apt-get update 3. install it sudo apt-get install zfs-fuse 4. Enjoy
We all know and love table of processes or simply top. Its a common admin tool. I found a derivitive that I like better. All hail htop.
I had read about the transparent compression that zfs offers. I wanted to verify it so I did, and sent my results off. As we all know no experiment is valid unless verifiable. I wanted be sure that the transparent Continue reading