Category Archives: linux

Switching Hosting Provider

I switched hosting provider within the last few months, I was running a VPS with unixshell in the states, but some of their transatlantic links dropped about ~20% of packets so it was slow for me. Also for the resources … Continue reading

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Geographical DNS

We need to have Geographical DNS, I think that’s what you call it. I looked into companies (neustar) that support this but found that they are really really expensive for what you get! So for starters I just used Round … Continue reading

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IPv6

This website is IPv6 enabled . I’ve had my account with sixxs for close to 2 years now, so I finally decided to apply for a second tunnel but as I never used my eircom email account it got deactivated. … Continue reading

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Internet TV

I installed democracy Player yesterday.. Its based upon VLC, and includes RSS etc.. According to the website www.getdemorcacy.com its turns your PC into a Internet TV video player. I must admit its is pretty good for what it is. To … Continue reading

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Skycon

I attendant a conference called Skycon run by the University of Limerick’s Computer Society. It was held over 3 days starting from Friday 16th to the 18th of Feb. I only went down for the first day as I didn’t … Continue reading

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dell 2950

The Company I’m working for had/has a need for 5TB of storage, for one of the projects. We already have a powervault 220s which is attached to an 1850, its provides 4TB of storage but that was split between 2 … Continue reading

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moving

Within the next few weeks the cartoon Saloon will be entirly moved to the Maltings it new home for the forseable future.There are a few issues that have to be sorted out by the landlord. Skunk fu production has been … Continue reading

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misc stuff

Great, unixhosting upgrade the amount of ram I’m allocated from 64mb to 128mb, nice one Unix Hosting… Over the last few days I’ve been getting ldap to play nicely with samba after a full day I’ve got some machines using … Continue reading

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Xen Virtualisation

Started playing around with Xen I stuck it on a Box i had lying around. its a AMD 950mhz with 256MB RAM, using Debian 3.1 ,its ample enough for what i want to do. Reading the docs on the installation … Continue reading

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postfix

Setting up vacation support for the compay mail server, wasn’t as trival as i expected . The mail server uses postfix/courier-imap/mysql/postfix admin. For this kind of setup a good example is here I used high5 postfixadmin for simple user account … Continue reading

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openvpn

I started looking at openvpn over that last week, It’s is much simplier than IPSEC to setup but requires to know something about routing and iptables. I started by setting up a static key just to get it working, as … Continue reading

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scoil.linux.ie

A new project was started by a group of Ilug members, it’s to get people aware of linux and usable in Irish schools. One of the projects is to develop OpenECDL courseware based on linux and OpenOffice 2.0 as this … Continue reading

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CESI

A bunch of us went up to the Computer Education Society of Ireland conference we planed on showing Skole Linux but a compay called openapp were showing a sarge based version of it. So we decided to switch to our … Continue reading

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