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John Alberts on January 19th, 2009

As I was browsing the Gentoo forums today, I came across a very interesting post. A user had 2 partitions on different hard drives that he wanted to combine the space on.  Ok, well the interesting part was one persons reply about a new fuse filesystem called mhddfs.  He pointed out an article on debian.net [...]

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John Alberts on January 8th, 2009

I can’t believe I never saw this before.  Sourceforge has an absolutely HUGE list of tips and tricks.  There’s hundreds of Linux tips and lots of programming tips as well.

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John Alberts on January 2nd, 2009

CPAN is great for easily installing and updating Perl modules. I use it all of the time on my servers. It’s a lot easier than managing Perl modules through the systems package manager. The problem is, when you want to install or update a Perl module, it asks you if you want to follow and [...]

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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 executable and a [...]

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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 [...]

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John Alberts on February 22nd, 2008

In this post we present 50 new CSS-techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective coding. … There are some very nice techniques here. Item #43 is very cool. It might come in handy for a site I’m currently working on.read more | digg story

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