John Alberts on December 31st, 2008

Today I had a need to keep the load on a server at 20 for an extended period of time. I was doing this to test notification escalations in Nagios. So, I found a nice little program call cpuburn-in that will load a processor at 100%. It’s just a tarball with an [...]

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John Alberts on December 23rd, 2008

I’ve seen many websites that have pretty much the same ext3 performance tips, but I just came across this one today that had something very useful on it.
It turns out that the ext3 filesystem by default reserves 5% of the disk space of the volume just in case the volume fills up.  This would allow [...]

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John Alberts on December 11th, 2008

So I figured what the heck, I might as well install some stats software if I ever plan on updating my blog.  So, I just installed a Google Analytics plugin. Of course, I’ll have to wait a bit for it to start showing some stats.

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John Alberts on December 11th, 2008

I just upgraded to Wordpress 2.7. Boy, the admin interface is much cleaner and polished looking. The default theme is very nice. It’s amazing how much work goes into a free product.
Now I just really need to start blogging more.

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