Xen HostingXen Hosting
I’m currently deciding where to get a Xen DomU hosted. It will be used for a new project that I’m about to start which will take more bandwidth than my[...]
IPSEC is PainIPSEC is Pain
I’ve been trying to get ipsec to work correctly as a basic VPN between two CentOS 5 systems. I set up the ipsec devices according to the IPSEC section of[...]
School Bag WeightSchool Bag Weight
Matt Bottrell has written about some issues related to the acceptable weight of laptops for school use [1]. Matt cites a reference from the Victorian government stating that a school[...]
Keith Olbermann on BushKeith Olbermann on Bush
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TEBpC0GLr6Y At the above Youtube page there is a video from MSNBC where Keith Olbermann discusses Bush’s record. Before I watched that I thought that it was impossible for me[...]
Installing a Red Hat based DomU on a Debian Dom0Installing a Red Hat based DomU on a Debian Dom0
The first step is to copy /images/xen/vmlinuz and /images/xen/initrd.img from the Fedora (or RHEL or CentOS) DVD somewhere convenient, I use /boot/OS/ (where OS is the name of the image)[...]
Xen and SwapXen and Swap
The way Xen works is that the RAM used by a virtual machine is not swappable, so the only swapping that happens is to the swap device used by the[...]
Security Flaws in Free SoftwareSecurity Flaws in Free Software
I just wrote about the system administration issues related to the recent Debian SSL/SSH security flaw [1]. The next thing we need to consider is how we can change things[...]
The New OLPCThe New OLPC
TED has a post about the design of the new OLPC [1]. I never liked the previous OLPCs [2], for my use a machine needs a better keyboard than the[...]
Debian SSH ProblemsDebian SSH Problems
It has recently been announced that Debian had a serious bug in the OpenSSL code [1], the most visible affect of this is compromising SSH keys – but it can[...]
Ideas to Copy from Red HatIdeas to Copy from Red Hat
I believe that the Red Hat process which has Fedora for home users (with a rapid release cycle and new versions of software but support for only about one year)[...]