I remembered that I had a twitter account when I got some more follow requests the other day. I set up tweetie on my devices, and sent off some tweets to make sure all was well. You can follow me here folks. Next steps include setting up some kind of integration between wordpress and twitter [...]
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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. [...]
HeatSync Mini-Client 2500
HeatSync Mini-Client 2500. This is it folks. This is the case that we have been waiting for to build the HTPC of the next five years. There are no negatives here. It is completely fanless (read silent), yet can handle a modern Intel DG45FC mainboard with a 3GHz dual core processor and decent video card. [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Who needs an ipkvm?
I figured out how to remotely power cycle the two poweredge 850′s I have remotely. I used dells ipmitool rpms and a little help from the internet. 1. Install the rpms 2. load the needed modules modprobe ipmi_si modprobe ipmi_devintf 3. configure the network, and auth as seen here 4. test xxxx
Go splunk yourself.
Splunk is google for logfiles. Even the free license is all I would ever need with syslog configured properly on each server.
Remember to look into latencytop
It seems like a quick way to diagnose system performance problems. Link.
I made a newegg wish list for a quiet home server.
Here is is. I have decided to use a mac mini as my mythtv frontend.
