Monthly Archives: October 2006

Does it really have to be so hard?

Posted on October 18, 2006 by erik

Fair warning, rant incoming. I’m working on a server development project, which will get deployed to CentOS 3 or possibly 4. Since I don’t currently have a spare machine that’s fast enough and able to blown away, I revived my … Continue reading →

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Burning DVD ISO images on Linux

Posted on October 13, 2006 by erik

So I had a great idea… Why don’t I buy a DVD burner and then start using DVD’s to install software, make backups, etc, etc. Well… it was a nice idea, but then I had another great idea… Why don’t … Continue reading →

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Fedora/CentOS with a Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000

Posted on October 13, 2006 by erik

So I’m working on some linux software and am running linux on my desktop. One of my major pet peeves every time I go back to a linux desktop is that out of the box my button 4 and 5 … Continue reading →

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Solaris BrandZ Zones

Posted on October 12, 2006 by erik

Sun has really been pushing innovation with Solaris recently, and since it’s now freely available and open sourced, what better time to give it a test drive? With the Solaris Express Nevada 49 release (get it from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/ and click … Continue reading →

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Security Appliance Roundup Part 2

Posted on October 12, 2006 by erik

Smoothwall came through with a demo license for me in just a matter of minutes, and I spend a couple hours playing with it. It has a fairly complete web interface, but unfortunately even with all its fancy features I … Continue reading →

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Disk Benchmarks, Round 1

Posted on October 10, 2006 by erik

In the process of trying to figure out my VM performance problems, I’ve been doing a lot of filesystem benchmarking. Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of consistency between platforms or machine classes as to benchmarking methodology, so I’ve had some … Continue reading →

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Security Appliance Roundup Part 1

Posted on October 10, 2006 by erik

So I want to simplify and strengthen our network security at the office. Currently we’re using a mishmash of cisco IOS ipsec, pptp, cbac/NAT and linux iptables host based firewalls. I’d like to centralize everything, and add a more reliable … Continue reading →

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First Post!

Posted on October 1, 2006 by erik

So, as it happens, I’ve been doing a lot of ‘research’ lately. Such that it is, a lot of my ‘research’ ends up being on the web, and a lot of information comes from blogs, so I decided I’d best … Continue reading →

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