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not even wolframalpha can help you

I have been playing around with http://wolframalpha.com lately and it has a lot of power behind it. I mostly use it for doing math stuff when I don’t have a calculator in front of me and it can even do some stuff I …

fileserver woes <Solved>

My filesyserver at home is a opensolaris box using raidz under zfs and right now it is having some problems. Recently I had to replace a drive that did not fail but it was making some clicking noises. After repplacing it …

about the server

Just sent to PROD a copy of my personal site. PROD is a 20$ vps currently hosting two websites and it is running open source software which is important. thanks to jamescarnley[http://jamescarnley.com] for doing some …

syslog-ng logserver using centOS/RHEL 5.1

My department has several linux computers and auditing the logs is very tiresome if they are all localized to each computer. While the vanilla syslog offers remote logging features it uses udp and thus many things can …

using nfs/nis to connect to a linux server on solaris

linux server: leif solaris client: sisu export the shares on leif to sisu and then exportfs -r add an entry in /etc/hosts.allow on leif on sisu modify the file /etc/auto_master and add the line /- auto_direct in …