In relation to my recent hardware issues I now have a bit of a dilemma, although it’s not a bad kind of dilemma to have.
Yesterday afternoon memtest86+ locked up after 10h28m running. It didn’t report any memory errors but clearly there are hardware problems there if even memtest can lock it up. So [...]
I’ve got a Supermicro-based server that I’m in the process of setting up for Xen hosting purposes. After 3 or 4 days of uptime and light load (because it’s not in production yet) sitting in its rack in a datacentre weird things start to happen.
I get random kernel panics and OOPSes, it locks up [...]
Uraeus, correct me if I am wrong but as far as I was aware Launchpad is not released software i.e. no one but Canonical uses it. Therefore IMHO there isn’t really a big issue about whether its source code should be released or not, since there is no one actually running it to take [...]
mrben, funnily enough, my employer hosts Christian Aid’s online shop. On Linux.
(Yes, I know the article was mainly about desktop office usage, it just amuses me)
aquarius, did you know about rsnapshot before doing this? It seems to do pretty much everything you want. I’ve been using it for several years, and currently back up two local and twelve remote machines ever four hours. I’m very happy with it.
Recently my fileserver, becks, was not only getting filled to capacity but was also undergoing some severe performance problems. It’s by no means a poorly-specced machine (not for home use anyway) but my use of rsnapshot has grown so much in the last 6 months that it was no longer up to the job.
Read [...]
Omahn, I think at £40/year UKUUG is definitely worth it, if you go to at least one of the conferences each year. They’re really quite high quality and a good time is to be had at the meal afterwards too. Although due to work pressures I haven’t been able to make it to [...]
Someone recently asked on the Sussex LUG list about whether most spam comes from malware-infected Windows machines or misconfigured Linux/unix mail servers.
The question as posed is difficult to answer, but as it happens I have for the last 10 days or so been running p0f against all port 25 connections to mail-in-01.lug.org.uk, the mail server [...]
Linux Gazette has an interesting article on Configuring Apache for Maximum Performance. It’s a good read and I can’t find fault with anything said, although it would have been nice if it touched on some of the alternative lightweight web servers out there, especially for the static content, e.g. Lighttpd (now in Sarge backports!). [...]
The Gigabyte I-RAM is one of the first cheap solid state storage devices I have seen. While 4GB may not seem a lot, this could prove amazingly useful for ext3 external journals and the like.
Check out the performance results, this storage totally blows away multi-disk RAID-0 arrays, as it should being basically battery-backed RAM.