Archive for the 'sysadmin' Category

md road-map: 2011 [LWN.net]

Friday, February 18th, 2011

road map for linux software "md" RAID. Good read, cudos to Neil Brown

FPUpdater Tool README

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

curl -v -H "Accept-Language: en-us;q=2.2250738585072012e-308" http://<your tomcat server>/someurl if your tomcat/Jboss/whatver runs on unlatched JVM — the thread will go into infinite loop

also see http://blogs.oracle.com/security/…

Gettys: Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another [LWN.net]

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

Interesting discussion on LWN about an article describes problem with packet loss on home broadband networks due to improper buffer sizes in various network gear (routers, cable/dsl modems, switches, etc) along the route path.

Out of Control® – » Sendmail pipe script dilemma

Friday, November 12th, 2010

sendmal “smrsh” (aka sendmail restricted shell) — how to do do “pipe to a script” alias.

Help! Linux ate my RAM!

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

this is funny (web page that shows to folks that are new to linux where [i.e. disk cache] the ram goes )

http://downloads.polycom.com/voice/voip/sip_sw_releases_matrix.html

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

SIP Firmware for Polycom SoundPoint IP Phones and conf. devices

So You’d Like to Send Some Email

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

post by Jeff Atwood about troubles involved in setting up your own mail server (i.e. in case you actually care that mail you send will actually reach the recipient). While I don’t agree with the post, post and comments (especially comments) do contai…

Jesper-Brouer_Large-iptables-rulesets.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Netfilter: Making large iptables rulesets scale

Inside the Linux boot process

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

[short] reference for linux boot process

RHEL 6 Beta [index of ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/6/]

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

just released on Aprl 21, 2010. Download and Try