Monthly Archives: July 2004

Practical Guide to Linux Traffic Control Draft

7/31/2004 – 11:08 am

Practical Guide to Linux Traffic Control:
A guide to using the traffic control facilities of the Linux kernel for marking, shaping, and scheduling traffic flows. Covers using the tc binary with classful and classless qdics, marking flows using netfilter, and two practical shaping configurations for broadband Internet users with concepts applicable to other shaping configurations.
The document [...]

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Knoppix v3.4 to the rescue

7/30/2004 – 8:26 pm

Heh. There aren’t any drivers to pull data off a Canon Powershot A60 under Windows 2000. You need Windows XP to do that, apparently.
Fortunately, gphoto2 under Knoppix 3.4 lets you extract and delete photos without incident. That saves me from buying a USB or PC Card flash card reader while I hunt [...]

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The magic of greylisting

7/21/2004 – 3:57 pm

After I heard about greylisting, I quickly setup a libmilter implementation for Sendmail on TrekWeb. So far it’s working quite well. The volume of spam I receive has dropped by over 90%. Any spam that gets through must then contend with dspam. I am already running seven different DNS blacklists, but [...]

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Linux Traffic Control Guide Draft

7/15/2004 – 11:17 pm

I finally completed the first draft of a traffic control guide for Linux.

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Linux 2.6 VM proc/sys/vm tunables

7/12/2004 – 3:20 pm

proc/sys/vm:
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value param desc
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block_dump [1/0] [...]

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Converting to ISO from Pinnacle Instant Copy PDI image format

7/8/2004 – 11:30 am

With the release of Pinnacle Instant Copy 8, the PDI image format transcoded DVDs are stored in is no longer compatible with Daemon Utils. The image will mount, but you will encounter errors when reading from the virtual disc. If you cannot burn the image set with DVDDecrypter, or do not want to, [...]

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Fun generating LDP DocBook XML on Debian

7/5/2004 – 6:09 pm

It took a few shots to get this going, but it seems to work now. You’ll need (most of) these to get started.

docbook
docbook-defguide
docbook-dsssl
docbook-utils
docbook-xml
docbook-xsl
ldp-docbook-dsssl
jade

You’ll also need to create an XML catalog, which does not yet exist for Debian. Fortunately James Henstridge has provided a script which will generate the catalog for those of us [...]

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Added mod_rewrite rules

7/1/2004 – 2:20 pm

There. Now the URLs are sane looking. I even went back and relinked some of the old MT articles to their new locations, so if anyone bothers to bookmark those URLs they will now point to the dynamic pages in their static clothing.

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