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Jan 11: Interesting read on request versus response rate limiting.Tagged » dns, linux, sean reifschneider, technical

Sep 18: Using custom .vimrc settings with googlecl and vimTagged » google docs, linux, mike loseke, nclug, technical, vim
May 29: Opsview notify_by_email and mailx on CentOS 6Tagged » linux, mike loseke, nclug, opsview, perl, technical
Mar 29: Changing a RAID-10 into a RAID-5.Tagged » linux, raid, sean reifschneider, technical

Apr 19: Allowing another user to join your screen sessionTagged » linux, mike loseke, nclug, screen, technical

Dec 31: Fun with Comcast and IPv6Tagged » fedora, ipv6, kevin fenzi, linux, nclug, technical
Dec 28: Fonts and web browsersTagged » browsers, fedora, fonts, kevin fenzi, linux, nclug, technical
Dec 27: Keepassx ReviewTagged » fedora, kevin fenzi, linux, nclug, passwords, reviews, technical
Nov 15: Running Google Chromium Full-Screen on a KioskTagged » browser, nclug, sean reifschneider, technical, web
Nov 13: Flashcache initial impressions.Tagged » impressions, nclug, sean reifschneider, ssd, technical
Nov 03: Patch for btrfs-progs to output the latest generation id.Tagged » btrfs, nclug, patches, sean reifschneider, technical
Nov 01: Fun with btrfs: What files have changed?Tagged » btrfs, linux, nclug, sean reifschneider, technical
Nov 01: btrsnap: Create and Expire Periodic btrfs SnapshotsTagged » btrfs, linux, nclug, sean reifschneider, technical
Oct 28: Some notes on using Cobbler.Tagged » deployment, linux, nclug, sean reifschneider, technical
Oct 19: Chromium browser with self-signed certs.Tagged » browser, chromium, sean reifschneider, technical
Oct 08: Tracking down high I/O loadTagged » io, linux, load, nclug, sean reifschneider, server, technical
Oct 06: A quick overview of SpreadTagged » linux, nclug, sean reifschneider, spread, technical
Oct 05: Using gPXE with kernel.org PXE serverTagged » linux, nclug, pxe, sean reifschneider, technical
Oct 03: Some experimenting with Ceph.Tagged » ceph, filesystem, linux, nclug, sean reifschneider, technical
Oct 03: Online shrinking of btrfs.Tagged » btrfs, nclug, sean reifschneider, technical
Sep 09: Resource Control in Linux-HA HeartbeatTagged » heartbeat, mike loseke, nclug, technical
Aug 26: Getting the program name in scriptsTagged » bash, nclug, sean reifschneider, technical
Aug 24: A very useful tool: fpingTagged » nclug, networking, sean reifschneider, technical
Aug 24: Avoiding your SSH daemon being killed during OOM.Tagged » linux, nclug, sean reifschneider, technical
Jul 16: Setting up a PXE boot ServerTagged » dhcp, kyle anderson, linux, nclug, netbooting, networking, pxe, technical, tftp
Jun 02: cron+xargs: The Scheduler of the StarsTagged » command-line, cron, nclug, sean reifschneider, technical, tricks, xargs
May 15: Getting 95 percentile numbers out of rrdtoolTagged » nclug, networking, sean reifschneider, technical
Apr 21: Analysis of a data loss event.Tagged » raid, sean reifschneider, technical
Apr 17: Improving Deduplication Performance Under ZFS-FUSETagged » performance, sean reifschneider, technical, zfs
Apr 11: ZFS-FUSE Status: Testing with DeDup going well.Tagged » linux, sean reifschneider, technical, zfs, zfs-fuse
Mar 14: @reboot and other cron fun.Tagged » cron, sean reifschneider, technical

Dec 10: Rsync and rdiff-backup: Two great tastes that go great together.Tagged » backups, sean reifschneider, technical
Dec 09: ZFS dedup Available in ZFS-FUSETagged » dedup, linux, sean reifschneider, technical, zfs
Aug 29: Auto-Connecting with Cricket Wireless A600 ModemTagged » networking, sean reifschneider, technical
Aug 29: Automating NetworkManager WWAN ConnectionsTagged » networking, sean reifschneider, technical
Aug 13: Linking ngircd servers: Beware of password length.Tagged » bugs, irc, ngircd, sean reifschneider, technical
Aug 04: OSCON 2009Tagged » conferences, mike loseke, sysadmin, technical
Jul 29: New BIND update available: Denial of Service fix.Tagged » bind, dns, sean reifschneider, technical
Jul 26: More on my Serial to Ethernet project.Tagged » ethernet, rs-232, sean reifschneider, technical
Jun 28: Serial to Ethernet adapters.Tagged » ethernet, rs-232, sean reifschneider, technical
Mar 21: Automatic name server replication with PowerDNS.Tagged » dns, sean reifschneider, technical
Mar 05: Adding an Audit Interface to BackupPCTagged » audit, backups, mike loseke, technical, ubuntu
Feb 26: Dell PowerConnect 5324 ARP Problem with Firmware 2.0.1.3Tagged » dell, networking, scott kleihege, technical
Jan 24: 6 Months of ZFS in LinuxTagged » sean reifschneider, technical, zfs

Dec 23: Cleaning up vim tmp files on boot.Tagged » sean reifschneider, technical, vim
Dec 05: Automating hard drive partitioning.Tagged » fdisk, sean reifschneider, technical
Nov 11: Other load-balancing options...Tagged » load-balancing, sean reifschneider, technical
Oct 23: So you want to process e-mail from Python?Tagged » e-mail, python, sean reifschneider, technical
Sep 21: Using FreeDOS CD for BIOS updates.Tagged » bios, freedos, sean reifschneider, technical
Sep 18: Installing Hardy on many hard drives.Tagged » grub, hardy, sean reifschneider, technical
Sep 17: Why do we test all our drives?Tagged » hard drives, sean reifschneider, technical, testing
Sep 16: What's the deal with Hitachi drives lately?Tagged » hard drives, hitachi, sean reifschneider, technical
Sep 06: Program to hunt for Sprint (or similar) wireless device.Tagged » sean reifschneider, technical, wireless
Sep 05: Enigmail message composition and mutt.Tagged » encryption, sean reifschneider, technical
Aug 25: "help" for zshTagged » sean reifschneider, technical, zsh
Aug 11: "Book" mode editing of code in vim.Tagged » sean reifschneider, technical, vim
Aug 08: rawstdin: Library for doing "raw" prompting of users.Tagged » library, python, sean reifschneider, technical
Aug 08: A month of ZFS under LinuxTagged » linux, sean reifschneider, technical, zfs
Jul 08: My Desktop HabitsTagged » desktop, linux, sean reifschneider, technical
Jul 05: ZFS Under Linux: A User ReportTagged » sean reifschneider, technical, zfs
Jul 05: Why I Like ZFS.Tagged » sean reifschneider, technical, zfs
Jul 03: SATA Port Multipliers Under LinuxTagged » sata, sean reifschneider, technical
Jun 25: Hiding crypto file-systems.Tagged » encryption, ideas, sean reifschneider, technical
May 27: FYI: Gandi DNS servers seem to be having problems.Tagged » dns, sean reifschneider, technical
May 02: Growing a software RAID-5 array.Tagged » linux, sean reifschneider, technical

Dec 04: PgAdminIII Hanging During ConnectionTagged » postgresql, sean reifschneider, technical
Nov 24: Recipe for setting up Encrypted root+swap on Fedora 8.Tagged » encrypted, fedora-8, sean reifschneider, technical
Nov 17: My 5 favorite Python library modules.Tagged » python, sean reifschneider, technical
Oct 31: Getting RPM to list packages by install dateTagged » rpm, sean reifschneider, technical
Oct 06: Hardware Report: APC AP7900 8-port Switched PDU with STONITHTagged » hardware, heartbeat, sean reifschneider, stonith, technical
Oct 06: Linux Hardware: 3Ware 9650SX with Linux.Tagged » hardware, sean reifschneider, technical
Aug 27: Setting up /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd on F7/CentOS 4/5.Tagged » centos, fedora 7, sean reifschneider, technical
Aug 26: Setting Up Encrypted root Partition on Fedora 7.Tagged » crypto, fedora 7, sean reifschneider, technical
Aug 14: DNS TTL caching?Tagged » dns, sean reifschneider, technical
Aug 09: Heartbeat 2.0.2 with ipmilan STONITH.Tagged » heartbeat, ipmi, sean reifschneider, stonith, technical
Jul 30: Reducing the size of your root partition.Tagged » ext2, ext3, resize, sean reifschneider, technical
Jul 24: Dell PERC 5/i CLI Management Tool.Tagged » cli, raid, sean reifschneider, technical
Jun 12: Firmware upgrade of the Linksys SPA-942Tagged » sean reifschneider, technical, voip
Apr 21: Lazyweb: Streaming distributed disc sectors.Tagged » i/o, lazyweb, sean reifschneider, technical
Apr 11: Installing Tomcat5 on CentOS4 with JDK 1.5Tagged » centos, java, scott kleihege, tech, technical, tomcat5
Mar 17: Are Quad Cores Worth It?Tagged » apache, benchmark, hardware, sean reifschneider, technical
Feb 14: The new US Daylight Savings Time (DST): Compliance testing.Tagged » linux, sean reifschneider, technical, timezones

Dec 26: New features in rsync.Tagged » rsync, sean reifschneider, technical
Dec 03: Anti-spam, the future...Tagged » anti-spam, sean reifschneider, technical
Dec 03: What we are doing for anti-spam.Tagged » anti-spam, sean reifschneider, technical
Dec 03: 2 weeks of FC6.Tagged » fc6, sean reifschneider, technical
Nov 30: Configuring VLANs Under Fedora/RHEL/CentOS.Tagged » centos, fedora, rhel, sean reifschneider, technical, vlan
Nov 25: Asterisk "n" priorities.Tagged » asterisk, sean reifschneider, technical
Nov 19: HOWTO Upgrade from FC5 to FC6 with "yum".Tagged » fc5, fc6, sean reifschneider, technical, upgrade
Aug 30: How DNS resolution works.Tagged » dns, sean reifschneider, technical
Aug 17: Setting up a secure SVN server.Tagged » sean reifschneider, secure, svn, technical
Jul 27: Mouse support under vim.Tagged » sean reifschneider, technical, vim
Jul 27: The difference between iptables DROP and null-routing.Tagged » e-mail, iptables, networking, sean reifschneider, technical
Jul 17: Nexenta and ZFS: The State of the Union.Tagged » nexenta, opensolaris, sean reifschneider, technical, zfs
Jul 15: xterm Regex Matching for Cut Selection.Tagged » regex, sean reifschneider, technical, x-windows
May 17: ZFS, the latest word in file-systems.Tagged » opensolaris, sean reifschneider, technical, zfs
May 10: Some interesting new features in vim.Tagged » sean reifschneider, technical, vim
May 05: What's in your computer bag?Tagged » sean reifschneider, technical
May 01: SELinux: Think of it like a firewall.Tagged » sean reifschneider, security, selinux, technical
Apr 28: A month of Fedora Core 5.Tagged » distros, fc5, linux, sean reifschneider, technical
Apr 09: 2 Weeks of Encrypted FilesystemTagged » encryption, linux, sean reifschneider, technical
Mar 30: First impressions of FC5.Tagged » fedora core 5, sean reifschneider, technical, upgrades
Mar 30: Early impressions about encrypted home.Tagged » encryption, linux, sean reifschneider, technical
Mar 26: Encrypted file-systems.Tagged » encryption, linux, sean reifschneider, technical
Mar 10: Closing down recursive resolvers.Tagged » sean reifschneider, technical
Jan 06: Debian Testing apt-get update Breaks, NO_PUBKEYTagged » apt, apt-get, debian, scott kleihege, secure, technical, testing, update
Jan 02: Subversion is a gateway drug (to darcs)Tagged » sean reifschneider, subversion, technical

Dec 23: DO Repeat Yourself!Tagged » procedure, sean reifschneider, technical, web
Dec 11: A few useful things about OpenVPNTagged » openvpn, sean reifschneider, technical
Dec 11: A week of Firefox 1.5.Tagged » firefox, sean reifschneider, technical
Dec 06: Some synchronization options.Tagged » redundancy, sean reifschneider, technical
Dec 04: Stopping spam with sender address checks.Tagged » sean reifschneider, spam, technical
Dec 03: Firefox 1.5 on FC4.Tagged » fc4, firefox, sean reifschneider, technical
Nov 27: Some performance comparisons.Tagged » hardware, sean reifschneider, technical
Nov 02: Installing Tomcat5 on RHEL4 or CentOS4.2Tagged » centos, centos4.2, java, rhel, rhel4, scott kleihege, tech, technical, tomcat5
Oct 30: (Ab)using a new Athlon X2 3800+: X and Xen TogetherTagged » hardware, sean reifschneider, technical
Oct 27: On CD media quality...Tagged » sean reifschneider, technical
Oct 03: Some articles I've written about Rails.Tagged » ruby on rails, sean reifschneider, technical
Oct 01: tumgreyspf Considered Useful?Tagged » sean reifschneider, technical
Sep 15: Why FreeBSD?Tagged » freebsd, sean reifschneider, technical
Sep 11: A Comparison of Django and Myghty.Tagged » python, sean reifschneider, technical, web
Sep 10: FC4 on a USB drive.Tagged » sean reifschneider, technical
Aug 17: Anatomy of a DoS.Tagged » dos, sean reifschneider, technical
Aug 17: Qemu Kernel Accelerator for Fedora Core 4Tagged » emulator, fedora core 4, qemu, scott kleihege, tech, technical
Aug 12: --force --nodeps Considered HarmfulTagged » rpm, sean reifschneider, technical
Jul 24: SSH iptables "limit" recipe.Tagged » iptables, sean reifschneider, ssh, technical
Jul 19: A few more iptables modules.Tagged » iptables, sean reifschneider, technical
Jul 16: More SSH attack activity.Tagged » sean reifschneider, ssh, technical
Jul 05: OpenSSL, the Crypto Swiss Army chain-saw.Tagged » crypto, sean reifschneider, technical
Jun 12: Next generation Linux packaging system.Tagged » linux, sean reifschneider, technical
Jun 02: Assembling a Debian Apt RepositoryTagged » apt, debian, howto, scott kleihege, technical, vpostmaster
May 15: Planning for a successful facility move.Tagged » migration, planning, sean reifschneider, technical
May 15: LVM2 Performance and blockdev.Tagged » lvm2, performance, sean reifschneider, technical
May 04: Pyrex: High-speed Python (sort of)Tagged » pyrex, python, sean reifschneider, technical
Apr 29: Using a transport for Mailman with PostfixTagged » mailman, postfix, sean reifschneider, technical
Apr 27: Keeping FreeBSD systems up-to-dateTagged » freebsd, scott kleihege, security, technical
Apr 21: Seamless Wired/WiFi SwitchoverTagged » bonding, linux, sean reifschneider, technical
Apr 21: qemu Bridged to ethernetTagged » bridging, sean reifschneider, technical
Apr 14: T42p Kernel and "mkspec" for Building Drivers.Tagged » kernel, linux, sean reifschneider, technical
Apr 12: Another Thinkpad T42p KernelTagged » kernel, laptop, linux, sean reifschneider, technical
Apr 12: Your NTP Server is Attacking My Network!Tagged » firewall, ntp, sean reifschneider, technical
Apr 11: ThinkPad T42p Keyboard Sticking after Suspend.Tagged » laptop, linux, sean reifschneider, technical
Apr 08: Why greylisting is such a benefit: SpamAssassin CPU usageTagged » greylisting, sean reifschneider, spam, spamassassin, technical
Apr 07: Linux on the IBM ThinkPad T42p (2373-HTU)Tagged » laptop, linux, sean reifschneider, technical
Apr 06: Why vi or Emacs?Tagged » emacs, sean reifschneider, technical, vi
Apr 04: Installing FC3 on JFS.Tagged » fc3, jfs, sean reifschneider, technical
Mar 24: Announcing Heartbeat for FreeBSDTagged » clustering, freebsd, heartbeat, linux-ha, scott kleihege, technical
Mar 14: Comcast Modem Setup Under LinuxTagged » comcast, linux, sean reifschneider, technical
Mar 12: Atheros versus IPW-2100 WirelessTagged » atheros, ipw-2100, sean reifschneider, technical, wifi
Mar 10: Setting up SSH public key authentication on the StarTech SV1110IPEXTTagged » sean reifschneider, ssh, technical
Mar 08: Device mapper versus RAID.Tagged » lvm, raid, sean reifschneider, technical
Mar 04: Xen virtual machine monitorTagged » sean reifschneider, technical, xen
Mar 02: Booting problems with CentOS 4.Tagged » centos 4, sean reifschneider, technical
Feb 25: RHES/CentOS 4 Boot Problems.Tagged » boot, centos 4, sean reifschneider, technical
Feb 23: Ethernet bonding.Tagged » bonding, networking, sean reifschneider, technical
Feb 21: Memtest86Tagged » memtest86, sean reifschneider, technical
Feb 19: Annoyance with PostgreSQL.Tagged » postgresql, sean reifschneider, technical
Feb 09: Introducing vPostMasterTagged » postfix, qmail, sean reifschneider, technical, vpopmail, vpostmaster
Feb 04: Turtles all the way down.Tagged » emulator, qemu, sean reifschneider, technical, xen
Feb 04: Weird JFS files that you can't delete.Tagged » jfs, sean reifschneider, technical
Jan 26: Using Gimp to eye-ball compression settings.Tagged » gimp, sean reifschneider, technical
Jan 20: These are a few of my favorite XDefaults.Tagged » sean reifschneider, technical, x11
Jan 20: Thoughts on Postfix, qmail, SMTP, and Spam.Tagged » postfix, sean reifschneider, technical
Jan 18: psycopg Operator PerformanceTagged » postgresql, python, sean reifschneider, technical
Jan 14: These are a few of my favorite commands.Tagged » linux, sean reifschneider, technical
Jan 05: Zero Configuration WiFi NetworkingTagged » networking, sean reifschneider, technical, wifi

Dec 29: Splitting tar files.Tagged » backups, sean reifschneider, technical
Dec 24: More on the state of shaping.Tagged » freebsd, linux, sean reifschneider, technical, traffic shaping
Dec 22: State of the Traffic Shaping AddressTagged » linux, sean reifschneider, technical, traffic shaping
Dec 22: Steps for moving a web-site.Tagged » migration, sean reifschneider, technical
Dec 20: Using WDS under LinuxTagged » sean reifschneider, technical, wds, wireless
Dec 20: Gmail Spam SurveyTagged » gmail, sean reifschneider, spam, survey, technical
Dec 16: Heartbeat/Linux-HA Success Story: tummy.com RoutersTagged » clustering, linux-ha, sean reifschneider, technical
Dec 15: Getting a unique number from a shell script.Tagged » postgresql, sean reifschneider, technical
Dec 15: Anti-Spam via HELO blocking and Postfix Makefile.Tagged » anti-spam, postfix, sean reifschneider, technical
Dec 12: An update to python-memcached.Tagged » python, sean reifschneider, technical
Dec 12: Security for Credit Card ProcessingTagged » evelyn mitchell, linux, processes, security, technical
Dec 12: Software suspend status and kernel.org RPMs.Tagged » fedora, fedora core 3, linux, sean reifschneider, software suspend, technical
Dec 09: System reliability.Tagged » reliability, sean reifschneider, technical
Dec 08: Bash CDPATH CompletionTagged » sean reifschneider, technical
Nov 29: Hashcash spam prevention system.Tagged » e-mail, sean reifschneider, technical
Nov 24: Sound fun with KDE.Tagged » audio, kde, sean reifschneider, technical
Nov 22: XFS and an interesting week for Software RAID.Tagged » md, sean reifschneider, software raid, technical, xfs
Nov 21: An informal MTA popularity contest.Tagged » mta, sean reifschneider, smtp, technical
Nov 19: Maintaining DRBD/Heartbeat clusters.Tagged » clustering, drbd, linux, linux-ha, sean reifschneider, technical
Nov 17: Installing MySQL 4.1 on Fedora Core 2Tagged » fedora core 2, linux, mysql, scott kleihege, technical, yum
Nov 16: Finally happy with FC3.Tagged » fedora, fedora core 3, linux, sean reifschneider, technical, upgrade
Nov 08: perl modules and RPMTagged » kevin fenzi, technical
Nov 04: clamavTagged » kevin fenzi, technical
Nov 03: handy rpm commandsTagged » kevin fenzi, technical
Nov 02: NFS and netappsTagged » kevin fenzi, technical
Oct 29: Some people take all the fun out of SSH.Tagged » sean reifschneider, ssh, technical

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