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ipv6 is starting to see some actual usage

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 real world.

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Boxee Beta introduced

The Boxee beta was introduced today around 7:00 PM eastern via a webcast. Link.

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I discovered pgrep and pkill

pgrep, pkill – look up or signal processes based on name and other attributes

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Installing and configuring freeswitch: part 1

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 svn co http://svn.freeswitch.org/svn/freeswitch/tags/1.0.2/ cd 1.0.2 ./bootstrap.sh ./configure –prefix=/usr/local/freeswitch make make install make sounds-install make moh-install [...]

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dacrib.net migration

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 w/ rotation 2. make sure the gallery installation is still working, including admin section 3. [...]

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ZFS in practice – installation under ubuntu

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

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htop == a better top.

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.

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ZFS in practice – verifying transparent compression -

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 compression was actually working so I set up a sample zfs volume and purposefully made [...]

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You can use seq to generate sequences. Cool.

I should have known about this for a while, but I recently learned that I could use seq to generate a sequence of numbers. It has options for doing things like only outputting even numbers in the generated sequences, and more. Great for used in bash loops.

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Stateless Linux How To:

Stateless Linux sounds like a great idea for those of us that have many systems with similar configurations to manage. If you have never heard of the idea RTFM. I have stateless linux almost working here at my house. Here are the steps that I followed thus far. on server system: yum -y install cobbler [...]

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