Archive for the 'sysadmin' Category

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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

dnl # prohibit creation of MSA daemons with default settings

Default Password List

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

default passwords list for various hardware devices

Testing Network Changes When No Test Labs Exist? [Slashdot Comments]

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

slashdot comments on the topic listing useful network testing and emulation tools

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.

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

Peter Eisentraut’s Blog: Solid-State Drive Benchmarks and the Write Cache

Monday, November 16th, 2009

read this before rushing to by some SSDs

STONITH Deathmatch Explained (and Some Hints for Resource Agent Authors and Systems Engineers)

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

page explains classic “deadlock” case for HA cluster.

Re: [Xen-devel] Red Hat dropped XEN – Xen Source [post about XEN versioning in RHEL 5]

Monday, November 9th, 2009

note from redhat engineer explaining what version of xen is used in RHEL 5.x (this is not that simple, hence this post)