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Author Archives: Lasse Osterild
OS X Lion driver for Keyspan serial adapters
For those of you who have one of Keyspan’s awesome serial port adapters, and who use it on Mac, there’s now a beta version of their driver for Mac OS X Lion (10.7) Go grab it -> here. For other … Continue reading
pv – monitor the progress of data through a pipe
As the title says, this tool will let you monitor pipe throughput, something which I find very valuable at times, ie. how fast was my tar or cpio to another host or filesystem, or less useful like how fast does … Continue reading
Separating a running job from the shell
There’s a little-known, but oh so useful, bash builtin called disown – We’ve all started a job that ends up taking way longer than anticipated, now you really wish you had backgrounded it to begin with, or had used Screen. … Continue reading
Ubuntu 10.04 PV DomU on XenServer 5.6
Admittedly, I was a bit disappointed to see XenServer 5.6 without support for Ubuntu, Debian 64-bit and Solaris, I wish they’d at least provide working templates as an unsupported download or something, but they don’t. So, if you want to … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, Uncategorized, Virtualization, XenServer
Tagged HVM, Para-Virtualized, PV, Ubuntu, xen
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Wiping Transcend V15 USB stick
Having purchased a Transcend V15 16GB USB stick for a router-on-a-stick project, I was horrified to find out that it came preinstalled with some proprietary Antivirus software which only works under Windows, to make matters worse, the USB stick reports … Continue reading
Vyatta 6.1 now available
The good people at Vyatta have announced the immediate availability of Vyatta version 6.1 (VC6.1) Vyatta Version 6.1 Highlights include: IPv6 Ready Vyatta Version 6.1 adds IPv6 BGP, IPv6 DCHP and IPv6 SNMP and this release completed IPv6 Forum IPv6 … Continue reading
Installing XenServer Linux Guest Support
It’s happend a number of times that I’ve had to install Citrix XenServer and have not had the Linux Guest Support CD with me, so I’ve later had to install it remotely, which is actually pretty easy. Transfer ISO file … Continue reading
Parsing Ahsay OBS logfile timestamps
All Ahsay OBS generated logfile timestamps use milliseconds since Unix epoch on January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT, it’s great for scripting and programming as it’s easy to do date math, but if you want to output a humanly readable date … Continue reading
Building a 52TB SAS-2 ZFS array
Storage can be very expensive, especially if you want a lot of it, want flexibility and expandability, but it doesn’t have to be! I’m currently in the process of putting together a new storage system, but because we’re strapped for … Continue reading
Posted in OpenSolaris, Storage
Tagged dell, l2arc, lsi, OpenSolaris, raidz2, sas, sas2, sc847, slog, Solaris, ssd, supermicro, zfs
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Introduction to Vyatta
When you as company are strapped for cash but need a full featured, flexible and redundant firewall/router setup, what do you do? Vyatta! What is Vyatta? It’s best described using Vyatta’s own words, “The free community Vyatta Core software(VC) is … Continue reading
Posted in Networking, Vyatta
Tagged community, firewall, network, open source, routing, vyatta
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