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Debian Lenny on Nehalem-based systems

April 16, 2009
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I recently had the opportunity to set up a few Nehalem based servers at SoftLayer to replace some older hardware that we were using.. and these servers /rock/. The servers have the E5520 CPU’s, and kick the snot out of the E5430’s that they replaced. We were able to actually able to replace 6 dual-5430’s [...]

Tagged as: Debian, Linux, Open-source

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Using Procmail with Plesk: rules via Ingo

January 7, 2009

In my previous post, I discussed how to get automatic procmail integration working with Plesk, to let you set up procmailrc rules to sort mail into folders. At the end of the post, I mentioned that it would be nice to figure out how to get Plesk’s version of Ingo set up to generate the [...]

Tagged as: Horde, Hosting, Ingo, Linux, Mail, Open-source, Plesk, Procmail

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Using Procmail with Plesk

January 6, 2009

For many years now, I’ve been maintaining a separate mail server, web server, and shell server. I’m getting busy these days, and just don’t have the time to dedicate to this maintenance. About a year and a half ago, I purchased a 30-domain Plesk license, which I am using for all the sites I host [...]

Tagged as: Hosting, Linux, Mail, Open-source, Plesk, Procmail

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if you manage routers and don’t have rancid, get it

May 18, 2008

RANCID, the “Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ” (nice backronym, eh?) is a program that periodically goes out and fetches the config files from your routers / switches / many other devices that it supports. If you manage any of these type of devices, and do not currently use RANCID, well, all I can say [...]

Tagged as: Management, networking, Work

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How to compile Nvidia kernel modules on 2.6.20+ with paravirt_ops enabled

May 2, 2007
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If you try to compile the nvidia kernel module on 2.6.20 or higher kernels that have paravirt_ops enabled (like the Debian kernels), you will run into a problem – it’ll complain that a non-GPL compatible license is using the GPL-only code paravirt_ops. I finally found a workaround (other than building the kernel without paravirt ops) [...]

Tagged as: Linux, Open-source

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finally, a “control panel” that i kind of like!

September 6, 2006

I’ve seen a wide gamut of those “control panel” things for hosting providers, and most of the ones I’ve looked at, I haven’t liked. They usually cost tons of money, use software I hate (ie, qmail), and do not integrate well with my preferred distribution (Debian). I ran across one today that seems to work [...]

Tagged as: Hosting, Open-source

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hp’s printer support under linux is getting better

May 3, 2006

Our printer (Epson Stylus Photo R200) died on us Monday night. I talked things over with Tiff, and we decided to go with an all-in-one printer, so she could do copying and such, too (she often could use that for work). One of my requirements was also to get a network-connected printer, so we don’t [...]

Tagged as: Linux, Open-source

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new debian i386 libc6 packages for xen

March 23, 2006

As those of you who use Xen on the i386 arch know, the libc6 stuff can be rather annoying. The Debian libc6 developers have finally released a test glibc that includes xen compatibility — no more moving /lib/tls out of the way and losing performance!
You can grab the packages from:
http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/xen/
Hopefully these will be mainline soon.

Tagged as: Linux, Open-source, Virtualization

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full suspend/resume *finally* working on my inspiron 6000

January 12, 2006

With the current version of the Linux kernel (2.6.15), some patches, and ATI’s fglrx driver version 8.20.8, software suspend/resume *finally* works, with full accelerated graphics support. Woohoo! Uptime on my laptop is now 6 days, and that involves many trips between home and work, and many suspend/resumes.
If you’d like a copy of the scripts I’m [...]

Tagged as: Dell, Hardware, Linux

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mt-daapd is teh cool

December 28, 2005

Tim (one of my co-workers) and I have been messing around with mt-daapd for the last couple days, and I gotta say, the software *rocks*!
For those of you not familiar with DAAP, it’s the protocol that Apple uses for iTunes’s music operations over the network. mt-daapd is an open-source product that runs on Linux, and [...]

Tagged as: Linux, Music

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using advanced routing to control traffic across your interfaces

November 21, 2005

[This page originally lived at http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/advanced-routing-in-out.php. I am working on migrating all content over to WordPress, which is why this post exists. This document is mostly up-to-date; please leave a comment with any changes!]
One of my tasks at work has been to set up Nagios to monitor all of our critical services. In the process [...]

Tagged as: Linux, Open-source, Routing

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advanced routing in linux to force traffic to interfaces

November 21, 2005

At work, I had an interesting problem where boxes would just seem to stop responding to ping packets for awhile on one interface, until you ping the other interface on the box. It turned out to be a problem with the way that Linux sends ARP requests when you’ve got routing set up across two [...]

Tagged as: Linux, Open-source

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per-user spamassassin preferences in ldap with mimedefang

September 21, 2005

[This page originally lived at http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/mimedefang-ldap-prefs.php. I am working on migrating all content over to WordPress, which is why this post exists. This document is mostly up-to-date; please leave a comment with any changes!]
This document describes how to set up my patches for Mimedefang which allow you to store per-user preferences for SpamAssassin in LDAP. [...]

Tagged as: LDAP, Linux, Open-source, Spam

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tethering a sprint pcs sanyo 4900 via usb with linux

September 21, 2005

[This page originally lived at http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/sanyo-4900.php. I am working on migrating all content over to WordPress, which is why this post exists. The original post is ancient, but most of the comments still apply to modern phones and 3G plans.]
This document describes how to connect a Linux box to Sprint’s “Vision” (3G) network using a [...]

Tagged as: Linux, Open-source

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debian on an inspiron 6000

September 13, 2005

[This page originally lived at http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/inspiron6000.php. I am working on migrating all content over to WordPress, which is why this post exists. Most of the comments on this post are waaay out of date.. if you still have an Inspiron 6000, any modern distribution should take care of you.]
This document contains some rough notes on [...]

Tagged as: Linux, Open-source

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wireless sniffing under linux

October 1, 2001

[This page originally lived at http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/wireless-sniff.php. I am working on migrating all content over to WordPress, which is why this post exists. Most of the comments on this post are waaay out of date.. but the concepts are similar.]
This document describes how I got sniffing of 802.11b wireless networks working with my Linux box and [...]

Tagged as: Linux, Open-source, Security, Wireless

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infrared between a sony vaio pcg-f390 and a nokia 8290 phone

September 13, 2001

[This page originally lived at http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/vaio-infrared.php. I am working on migrating all content over to WordPress, which is why this post exists. This is ancient, and probably no longer applies.]
This document describes how I got infrared working between my Sony VAIO PCG-F390 and my Nokia 8290 GSM Phone.
Last modified: 9/13/01 Nate Carlson
Background:
I’ve always wanted wireless [...]

Tagged as: Linux, Open-source

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