I realised I never came back and reported the results of my OpenSSL "speed" testing after our 2096 got upgraded. For reference, here was the original chart, from when the system was sub-capacity: ... and the...
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A little while back I did an "emerge system" on my VPS and didn't think much more about it. First time back to the box today to emerge something else, and was greeted with this: >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking traceroute-2.0.15.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/net-analyzer/traceroute-2.0.15/work touch: setting times of `/var/tmp/portage/net-analyzer/traceroute-2.0.15/.unpacked': No such file or directory ...and the … Continue reading Another round of Gentoo fun
Two of the four keynotes at LCA 2011 referenced the depletion of the IPv4 address space (and I reckon if I looked back through the other two I could find some reference in them as well). I think there's a good chance Geoff Huston was lobbying his APNIC colleagues to lodge the "final request" (for … Continue reading IPv6: SSDM?
I posted on my developerWorks blog about an experience I had sharing an OSA port in Layer 2 mode. Thrilling stuff. What's more thrilling is the context of where I had my OSA-port-sharing experience: my large-scale Linux on System z cloning experiment. One of these days I'll get around to writing that up.
It's been ages since I did an update on the main network machine here, and I bit the bullet over the weekend. 250+ packages emerged with surprisingly little trouble, and all I was left to do was build the updated kernel and reboot. I usually end up with something that doesn't restart after the reboot, … Continue reading Asterisk and a Patton SmartNode
With Apple's abandonment of PPC as of Snow Leopard, I began wondering what to do with the old PowerMac. It's annoying that so (comparatively) recent a piece of equipment should be given up by its manufacturer, but that's a rant for another day. Yes, we can still run Leopard until it goes out of support, … Continue reading ppc Linux on the PowerMac G5
I'm having a bit of an infrastructure redesign here at the Crossed Wires campus. Each time I have an outage (the last one was caused by a power failure) I learn a little more about the holes in my current setup and what I can do better. I'm implementing a router box on an old … Continue reading LDAP-backed DNS and DHCP…?
In part one, I described how I reconsidered device-and-user mode in FreePBX, and did the initial changeover. Read on to find out how I overcame a major issue with the configuration!I have an ISDN phone line coming into my Asterisk system. One of the indials is for our home number, the other is one I … Continue reading FreePBX device-and-user mode, part two
Buoyed by the success of a colleague I introduced to Asterisk and FreePBX a little while ago, I decided to have another look at the extension configuration mode I use on our system. Check this post for a recap of the FreePBX configuration modes and my first thoughts.Last time I looked at this I thought … Continue reading Revisiting device-and-user mode in FreePBX
I've been trying to solve a problem at work for a few weeks now -- one of those tricky "it's only software so it shouldn't be this hard" sort-of problems for which you know the solution is just a matter of putting the right bits and pieces together. At work, I'm more-or-less forced into using … Continue reading Are we letting Microsoft define our industry?
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