Linux Random Thoughts Reminder: root needs > 10GB January 16, 2011 / January 23, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment *sigh* [tim@beast ~]$ df / -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/disk/by-uuid/ebc29b81-cc7e-4fa5-9777-8953f54752ff 9.9G 9.3G 70M 100% / Why oh why do I do this to myself? Read more »
Clustering Computers Linux Holding back way to much! January 15, 2011 / January 23, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment A typical day’s worth of updating my machines usually looks a bit like this: [tim@myhost tmp]$ sudo pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date multilib is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: gnome-disk-utility: ignoring package upgrade (2.30.1-1 => […] Read more »
Linux Random Thoughts Broadcom is part of the Linux Foundation January 13, 2011 / January 23, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment When you look at the Linux landscape, there are traditionally two companies which are well known for lacking support when it comes to Linux. ATI and Broadcom. Well, good news when looking at the Broadcom landscape! Broadcom, well known for frequently holding out when it came to delivering drivers – especially Wi-Fi drivers and source […] Read more »
Computers Linux Random Thoughts Handy Hints: Create random MAC addresses January 10, 2011 / January 23, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Quick and simple MAC address generator: dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=3 2>/dev/null | od -tx1 | head -1 \ | cut -d' ' -f2- | awk '{ print "00:50:19:"$1":"$2":"$3 }' I normally have this set up as an alias in my profile under ‘mac’. Read more »
Google Linux Random Thoughts Google owns On2. What now? January 9, 2011 / January 23, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment When it comes to companies that create multimedia codecs, I have followed none closer then that of On2 Technologies. On2 came to my attention when TrueMotion VP3 was released as Open Source Software in late 2001. On2 released the source code of their VP3 codec. They irrevocably disclaimed all rights to the codec and gave […] Read more »
Linux RedHat Where is CentOS 6? January 8, 2011 / January 23, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Want to know what the status is of CentOS 6 is and how far away it is to being completed? There is a page on the CentOS wiki which contains a list of all the packages which the developers are currently focusing their attention on. Head over to http://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/6/AuditStatus for more information on the status […] Read more »
Documentation Linux Getting OpenSUSE’s Xen ‘Kernel of The Day’ on other Distro’s August 8, 2010 / August 23, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Getting the latest (mainline) Linux kernel is easy, you just head over to kernel.org and click the first ‘Full Source’ link that you see. When it comes to Xen, it’s so hard that even the official Xen Wiki can’t really find a simple download and configuration link. After running Andrew Lyon’s Gentoo patches for Xen […] Read more »
Linux Looking for Alpha Testers! March 25, 2010 / August 23, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | 1 Comment on Looking for Alpha Testers! Do you like testing and writing documentation for new and exciting applications? I am currently working on a new enterprise application which will simplify the deployment of new machines in a Unix network. It’s literally plug, deploy and play! I can’t really tell that much just yet on what the application actually does, that’s top […] Read more »
Linux Installing NRPE for Nagios Monitoring January 12, 2010 / August 23, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment When you have more then three servers to monitor, automating the installation of NRPE is a must! At Digital Pacific, the configurations that I have written are very versatile, there is about ten main lines, and adding or removing a server from that line determines what services will be monitored and how. I have built […] Read more »
Linux Updating my Arch system December 11, 2009 / December 11, 2009 by Tim Groeneveld | 1 Comment on Updating my Arch system This is the bad thing about running a distro that releases up to date software. Eventually you will get 276 package updates. Read more »