Gary's Shared Google Reader ItemsI have to distribute development VMware images to the developers. Since we don’t have office space at this point, we’re using cable modems to transfer the images around. This is a bit of a pain for 2GB+ images.
The image I built uses LVM. When I try to use the vmware-toolbox to compress the vmdk, the [...]
I’m working on building some new linux firewalls right now. It’s the same redundant dual trunked interface setup I’ve been using for a while now. I have two identical boxes that plug into trunk ports the switches. They run heartbeat for fail over.
Here are two things to do when building machines in the real world [...]
I need a local mirror of CentOS again. But I only want CentOS 5. I’ve done this before, but I figure I should post the script so that I don’t have to write it from scratch again next time.
#!/bin/bash
# change to limit# bandwidthBWLIMIT=256
# call the script with ‘1′ or something# to make it display progressVERBOSE=$1
# [...]
There was a discussion on the CentOS mailing list the other day about Oracle Cluster File System 2. I went and checked it out. Well, I read some docs about it anyway.
It’s released under the GPL and it’s not really just for Oracle. It looks to be a share nothing type file system layer. Oracle [...]
