Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Several years ago, when I was first looking to switch from Windows to a new operating, I was really interested in switching to Linux or Unix. Unfortunately, in my experience, you had to be a command line hack if you wanted to install, enhance or fix anything. I had no ...
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
Last week Jon wrote about the horrifying experience everyone eventually has to deal with – data loss. His wife’s hard drive failed – and without a current backup to rely upon – he went through two data recovery companies and two thousand dollars to retrieve 80 gigs of home movies, ...
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
Ethtool allows you to configure most network drivers with settings such as full or half duplex, speeds of 10 or 100, and auto negotiation. In order to have these settings take affect on boot, you need to add them to the boot process somewhere. There are various approaches for this, ...
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
We recently deployed two new Linux web servers, a couple of Sun v20z’s. Ubuntu installed cleanly, we put them into production, and everything was going smoothly. Then Apache processes started hanging, and we ended up rebooting a couple of times to get the servers functioning again. Turns out it was ...
Saturday, November 19th, 2005
We completed the cre824 competition this morning. Our submission came out great, and we somehow managed to complete everything we set out to accomplish. My favorite piece of the competition was our development environment, which we set up the night before. The central piece of a good development environment is ...
Monday, November 14th, 2005
Google Analytics was announced today, and it’s a big step forward for webmasters and web metrics. Urchin, which Google bought earlier this year and used as a foundation for Analytics, was a nice product. A little expensive, but the reports were definitely a step ahead of the competition. The installation ...
Monday, November 14th, 2005
If you want to use Linux for routing, you need to activate IP forwarding. After you’ve configured your kernel, you have to do this: echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Of course, you want this to happen when you boot. You can do this anywhere in your boot scripts, but there are ...