Monthly Archives: October 2006

Does it really have to be so hard?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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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