Nix Bits

Oh Man, These past two weeks since getting back from Vegas have been brtual. I’ve had patches blow up in my face (partly because Solaris patching is still so 1995). I had a storage crunch on my NetWorker index store force me to borrow some space and mount it over NFS. Which […]

So last thursday I find the server that houses this site, my domain, my pictures, is unavailable. The server actually belongs to a friend who runs a business on it. I have helped him over the years keep the machine and the site up and running. It’s been housed on the same […]

Denyhosts parses your log files and adds ssh attack automated attack attempts to tcp_wrappers’ /etc/hosts.deny. This is the same concept as this little shell script I cooked up. Of course my little script was derived from another script specific to openbsd and it’s pf firewall.

Denyhosts is pretty much the same idea as mine but […]

This interesting article talks about the kernel.org infrastructure used to maintain the Linux kernel. Overall it’s a fascinating little bit of history. It’s also intriguing because it gives an example of running an extremely bandwidth and processor intensive site. This quote is especially interesting regarding an earlier verision of kernel.org hosted on […]

According to this the MP3 hard drive player I use every day — a PJB 100 — is an antique. O.K. Maybe not an antique, but a collectors item.

The PJB was the first hard drive MP3 player. The one I have has a 20G hard drive. It’s about 4 times larger […]

The new Knoppix 3.8 has added an interesting feature by incorporating UnionFS into the filesystem. What does this mean? Well it means I can modify a file in /etc without a problem. The underlying unionfs structure writes the mod to /ramdisk and the change is transparent.
In fact, any change can […]

This is one of those articles I’m just preserving for my own future reference.

I found this article on installing Debian From Scratch fairly intresting. Lately I’ve been installing mepis as a Debian install for others. But for myself, I need something a bit more hands-on. The Debian install I have at home is getting really stale now so I am actually considering a re-install. […]

Joey Hess wrote an article sometime back on how he maintains his entire home directory in cvs. He has updated it now to use subversion now. I’ve been using svn to maintain some projects myself and I liked Joey’s original concept. The only issues for me is that I sometimes use […]

LWN: Welcome to LWN.net
excellent Linux news site

Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
duh.

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
Debian — The Universal Operating System
my other favorite linux distribution

Gentoo Linux — Gentoo Linux News
One of my favorite distributions

x11vnc: a VNC server for real X displays
very useful utility for VNC. use with SSH tunnels […]