I had to sacrifice my nice Matrox G400 as I ran out of spare AGP cards to use. I needed all the available PCI slots. I stuck in a variety of Fast Ethernet cards and an Adaptec 2940U2 with a 4GB Seagate SCSI disk for good measure. The box seems swell. [...]
I’ve been using Dirvish to handle snapshot backups for more than nine months now. I set things up kind of strange initially, so I finally migrated my directory tree to mirror more what the author of the tool originally intended, I think.
If you ever need to mess with the internals of Dirvish, here are [...]
I just ordered a 4 port Linxcel KVM switch and four cables. Hopefully I’ll have that by next week. I’ve been flipping through too many boxes of late not to have an actual KVM switch. I’ll probably sell my 2 port KVM with built-in cables.
Also ordered an Athlon XP 1800+ so I [...]
I installed my old Dell P3 mainboard in the backup server. Its a bit more responsive now. I’m copying over all the files on the backup array, so I can move to Linux software RAID. A bunch of dumb ATA PCI controllers and software RAID should be fast enough for the backup [...]
I wrote a tutorial on using tncg finally. But, I’m finding file sharing traffic does not like to be classified by port and tcng is not equipped to deal with that. It also seems to have some issues matching IP packets based on length, which I need to prevent the inclusion of packets [...]
My Dell ATX to ATX converter arrived, so its time to migrate the backup server to a slightly newer mainboard. Hopefully this will resolve my Gigabit issue and I’ll be able to consistently sustain 16MB/s both to and from the backup server.
I’m going to take the old board and build a new firewall with [...]
[root@trekweb root]# w
15:48:42 up 6 days, 22:52, 2 users, load average: 6.19, 4.72, 2.92
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
jasonb [...]
[jasonboxatwork] heh
[jasonboxatwork] can anyone think of any cool hardware to buy?
[jasonboxatwork] I ran out of stuff to buy
[sirreal] LCD screen?
[benit] no
[sirreal] digital projector?
[eruditehermit] JasonBoxatWork: you can get me a scsi HD
[eruditehermit] JasonBoxatWork: then a raid array
[eruditehermit] JasonBoxatWork: then an e server
[sirreal] or you could buy my love. i don’t see EruditeHermit with a donate page [...]
modsecurity for Apache was discussed. I should probably deploy this on TrekWeb as it is sorely needed.
My tcng tutorial is nearly finished. I need to add some explanation of how HTB works, again, along with how changing the class priority effects it, and a bit about SFQ as the leaf qdisc.
There’s just not much excuse for this, from SunHELP mailing list:
Hi Friends,
What is dmesg and how can we use this?
Also, need info about
cron.
Thanks
Sigh.