Archive for the 'Linux' Category

[DE] Cisco ASA, Linux und QEMU | SinusPL’s Blog

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Notes about ASA 8.02 firmware: after some tricks with hexdump, dd and gzip, the guy was able to extract linux x86 initrd image from

CCIE in 3 months – Is it possible?: Get your hands dirty with Linux on an ASR1000

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

internal details about Cisco ASR1000 “platform” router, including hardware details (/proc/cpuinfo, dmesg)

Anatomy of the libvirt virtualization library

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

useful article about “libvirt” – a common management interface for different visualization software

[RUS ] Не проверять исходящую почту на спам – Конференция iXBT.com | [ENG] How to disable spam checking for outgoing mail

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

dnl # prohibit creation of MSA daemons with default settings

[What linux file system does google use?] Answer: [Jfs-discussion] benchmark results

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Currently ext2, will move to ext4 . Read the discussion for more info

CFQ – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

notes about Linux IO Scheduler – CFQ [Completely Fair Queue] . Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noop_scheduler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticipatory_scheduling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadline_scheduler

btrfs Wiki

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

BTRFS is a new ZFS-like linux file system, it is present in the recent kernels with “experimental” status.

[Linux Journal, 2004] Kernel Korner – I/O Schedulers

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Kernel Korner – I/O Schedulers

Kernel Korner – Linux as an Ethernet Bridge

Friday, December 18th, 2009

LinuxJournal ’2005 article about how to bridge 2 network interfaces in linux

Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions + Xorg config (View topic) • virtualbox.org

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

example Xorg config for recent ubuntu/fedora