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A bit of sugar
My trusty and ol' VMware server was serving me well since quite some time by now, but to be honest, RAM was always an issue on those boxes. 32 GB namely aren't much. This time I got myself a late xmas present pushing...
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Show the TCP connections made
This is a small snippet which has helped me on my server; showing you the top tcp connections made: netstat -atun | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | tail -n+3 | sed -e '/^$/d' |sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r Nothing funk...
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Network too intelligent
Lately, working with Windows 7 I noticed a cruel transmission rate of 200 B/s while fetching a file from a local server over a highspeed connection. No, I didn't have a typing error in there, it's 200 Bytes per second...
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Suspect things going on
It's not a secret that I tend to dislike apple for the way they raped BSD to get it useable for the masses, but what they do to me from the programmers point of view, is insane. Let's start out with a simple MAMP inst...
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Small things with a huge effect
Every time computers are running smooth and things are looking fine and you think of looking at the items at the top of your Todo-list, things that you should have done weeks ago but couldn't because of things prevent...
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The schizophrenic DNS
Today I'd like to introduce a small, but pretty useful feature of nameservers using BIND as an example. Delivering different answers for different IP ranges. Sure, this might sound strange, but if you dig into that, i...
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Rebooting IT
My old server machines are too noisy - which is an undeniable fact and the reason for consolidating machines. It was a decision which didn't make me happy, but logic told me to do so and offered a new challenge to me....
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Using .htaccess to migrate to https
If you change your website from http to https, it's usually a bigger problem due to the users that didn't update their bookmarks or just ignore the new links you sent them in an email announcement again and again. But...
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Server Move
This weekend I will move my server to the new IP range. Hope that everything works as expected. [UPDATED 9:00pm CET] Things are starting here - config hacking and redoing the wires... [UPDATED 11:00pm CET] Moving fini...
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Doing iSCSI targets on ZFS
As ZFS did quite well here - even after messing around with disks, I decided to give it another try. This time I am out to use its features on other systems. But to do so, I need to share it. As I am running virtual m...
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Let's get active
Today is a wonderful day, the Linux Day in Dornbirn - the place to gather my CAcert points to become an active assurer for the Web of Trust. As it was possible to take the assurer test on site - god bless the inventor...
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Now with new Certificates
It shouldn't be a new topic to secure your data while sending it across public lines like the internet. This usually happens using server certificates, which are made once and never touched again - if self signed. In...
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Alternatives to Nagios
Knowledge about the things happening on hosts and network is essential to a system administrator. That's why they usually install a bunch of software tools to get the required informations from their systems. Nagios i...
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Internet Explorer and Network shares
Last post I have ranted about apple doing crap, but to be honest, it isn't really better on windows - it's just different problems like being unable to execute a binary file from a network drive. As the error message...
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Windfall
Today I have really started thinking about apple computers again due to the latest incident. This time we're talking about windows shares in a cooperated network, called smb or samba shares in combination with an acti...
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Moving the server machines
Due to the fact that I am moving to the new flat, my servers will be offline for a couple of hours starting tomorrow afternoon (GMT+1). I'll post here as soon as I know anything new before we'll go down for hopefully...
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Enough joking
As the title says, I'm getting serious about my server boxes - no more software raid, no more running all that websites using the same user, no more kidding. As the new mailserver is already productive, the second IBM...
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eBay blues
I guess you know the typical eBay ads on TV, showing happy people cheering about their purchase. But what about reality? Who talks about the people who missed an item or were overbid by some software tool, which is ag...
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Apache and OpenSSL
My SSL Certificate for the webserver expired - so I had to generate a new one, which is a perfect topic to blog about. Regarding SSL Certificates, there are two possibilities: you may buy an official one or you may ge...
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Requiem for a box
It is a tradegy in a geeks life if a server and its data are dying without a warning. But that is how life is ment to be, according to murphy. This are the last words for and about my loyal server Odysseus. Its job wa...
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Server gone?
Today at about 18:30 Guild Wars - Error code 13 - Guild Wars couldn't complete some processes. So far the nice evening in front of the box... Update: As it seems, the european server crashed. After 1 hour it was possi...
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Communities und deren Server
Nachdem der Server von Juzio nach allen regeln der Kunst eingegangen ist und nun wieder unter meiner Kontrolle ist geht es los. Da die alte Community-Site nicht mehr auf Stand ist, setzen wir die komplette Umgebung ne...
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Communities und deren Server
Nachdem der Server von Juzio nach allen regeln der Kunst eingegangen ist und nun wieder unter meiner Kontrolle ist geht es los. Da die alte Community-Site nicht mehr auf Stand ist, setzen wir die komplette Umgebung ne...
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Ares is back
Der durch Netzteilschaden ausgefallene Rechner ares.stargazer.at steht seit Neuestem wieder im internen Netzwerk, nachdem die defekten Teile getauscht wurden. Die Gentoo-Installation - stage1 - verlief ohne grosse Pro...
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Ares is back
Der durch Netzteilschaden ausgefallene Rechner ares.stargazer.at steht seit Neuestem wieder im internen Netzwerk, nachdem die defekten Teile getauscht wurden. Die Gentoo-Installation - stage1 - verlief ohne grosse Pro...