Archive for July, 2008

Turn simple Screen Sharing in to Apple Remote Desktop (almost) | Leopard Tricks Tips and Tools

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

screen sharing in mac

[how to queue messages for sendmail] sendmail queue questions – comp.mail.sendmail | Google Groups

Monday, July 28th, 2008

some bits about how to queue mgs for sendmail as opposed to inistate sending.

Why power failures are bad for your data

Friday, July 25th, 2008

artilcle tells what happens when u pull the plug … in short nothing good will happen, so use UPS! read article for details

Remote Conversion to Linux Software RAID-1 for Crazy Sysadmins HOWTO

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

how to convert single disk install to linux software raid1 (this guide also assumes that u don’t have local access)

[x86 booting] The Kernel Boot Process

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

3rd article — explains how linux kernel boots

[x86 booting] How Computers Boot Up

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

2nd article, the 1st is at http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/motherboard-chipsets-memory-map

Not a Guessing Game — Paul Vixie [from ISC/Bind] on recenet DNS hole

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

do a ‘dig TXT porttest.dns-oarc.net’ . || w.out disclosing details Pau confirms that the hole exists, and that !IMPORTANT! NAT/PAT effectively netrualize UDP port randomization fix

Linux.com :: Benchmarking hardware RAID vs. Linux kernel software RAID

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

JULY-2008: adaptec SAS 8 port with 6 SATA HDDs vs MD-RAID for 5, 6 and 10

Benchmarking boot latency on x86

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

article explains a few things and post sample code that shows how to instrument x86 boot process

[russian] Как украсть Linux? – Директор ИС | How to Steal Linux – IT Director Magazine

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

russian publication “IT Director” [rus: Директор ИС] has published a detailed article about legal status and a variaty issues that surrounds free/open source usage in Russian Federation