xz: Your next default compression tool
The xz compression program, run with defaults, can be so slow that you might wonder why anybody uses it. But on a modern machine, xz… Read More »xz: Your next default compression tool
The xz compression program, run with defaults, can be so slow that you might wonder why anybody uses it. But on a modern machine, xz… Read More »xz: Your next default compression tool
Today we released rsnapshot-parallel to Github. While we’ve used rsnapshot for years, recently with the proliferation of virtual machines we’ve noticed our backups running much… Read More »rsnapshot-parallel
Let’s say you need to access a resource that’s protected by HTTP Basic authentication but the system you’re using doesn’t support it. Like, say, Google… Read More »Automatic HTTP Basic Authentication with mod_proxy
Maybe you’re tired of all the fail2ban log messages about attempts to crack your ssh passwords. Maybe you have developers who need to access a… Read More »Multi-Port Port Knocking with IPTables
We would like to be able to redirect a message directly from our inbox to an RT ticket, in the form ticketnumber@rthost and have it… Read More »RT – Redirecting Comments Directly to a Ticket with Postfix
Some tips and tricks for dealing with multiple OS releases with the current version of Puppet in EPEL6/7.
Instructions for how to update a KitKat version of CyanogenMod’s Android distribution with adb on a computer and TWRP on the phone.
A script to rebuild the sqlite files that Chromium/Chrome depend on.
You can now install RT/Request Tracker version 4 on CentOS/Redhat Enterprise 7 via RPM packages.
Installing EL7 on a modern Xen setup requires some changes from the EL4/5/6 methodology.