Just after Christmas, I bought myself a new 11in MacBook Air (MB Air) to replace the 12in PowerBook G4 (PB) that I’ve kept running entirely too long. I selected the 4GB Ram, 128 GB SSD configuration as the system is…
Tag: CentOS
Solaris 10 10/09 (update 8), unattended Jumpstarts, sysidcfg locations and Linux NFS v3 server
At a previous job, we had a combined Solaris Jumpstart and RedHat Kickstart server to install new systems. Now that I’ve moved on from that position, I decided I needed to reproduce that functionality — with a few differences: Support…
xsysstats and rpc.rstatd
What is xsysstats? xsysstats is a rpc.rstatd client which graphically displays near real time performance statistics of the running unix kernel. The following statistics are available: cpu packets ipackets (packets in) opackets (packets out) pagei (page in) pageo (page out)…
The cost of bleeding edge?
I’ve just finished updating my workstation at home and at work to Fedora 11. The impetuous was to cut down on the number of VMs that were running on my machine at home and reduce the number of packages I…
IPSca and CentOS
IPSca is a SSL certificate provider which provides zero cost Educational SSL Certificates, mainly for .edu sites. I tried them out for two different websites at work. The certificates work great, even with having to install a SSLCertificateChainFile entry in…