Category Archives: Unix

Mumbling from Facebook

Leanne Rolston Dear Leanne, Save your praat scripts before you run them. That way, if they take too long, you can run them from the command line and get on with work. Love, Leanne Like · · 8 minutes ago … Continue reading

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For the DMZ

Posted in 19.34 RCW, auditing, colliertech, debian, Dell, Eating CenturyLink's Lunch, Free Software, Hardware, investment, linux, military, network neutrality, network saturation, Networking, peering, performance, rate limiting, Telecommunications, Telephony, Unix, UTC, washington, ZyXEL | 2 Comments

Getting outside

I’m trenching a ditch. I’m hoping to run a few 25-pair telco cables, some fiber, a few coax cables, 240v power, 120v power, natural gas and perhaps a few cat-6 cables through it. Assuming the authorities approve, of course. .

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Linus on Instantiation and Armadaification

I feel a sense of pride when I think that I was involved in the development and maintenance of what was probably the first piece of software accepted into Debian which then had and still has direct up-stream support from … Continue reading

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Installing Open Solaris as a Xen domU

This particular dom0 is running Ubuntu 8.10 on an amd64 kernel using an lvm volume group called ‘vg0′. Adjust accordingly. Note that the credentials for this particular live cd are: unprivileged username: jack unprivileged password: jack privileged username: root privileged … Continue reading

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boycottnovell.com not interested in solving problems

But don’t take my word for it. The folks on their IRC channel have put it pretty plainly themselves. They’re not interested in offering solutions to problems, they instead seem interested in bemoaning their lot in life for fun and … Continue reading

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does anyone else feel forced to produce crap?

Management wants MORE RESULTS NOW NO MATTER WHAT THE COST!!!!! I feel like the world is telling me to give them more crap, less useful code! Does anyone else feel like business requirements are forcing them to produce lots of … Continue reading

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hello world in perl6 with parrot

$ mkdir -p /usr/src/svn/perl/parrot && \ cd /usr/src/svn/perl/parrot/ && \ svn co https://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk && \ cd trunk && \ perl Makefile.PL && \ make && \ cd languages/perl6/ && \ make && \ ../../parrot perl6.pbc say “hello world” hello world … Continue reading

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Setting up a cluster

So… I guess at this point, the hosts on colliertech.org could be considered a cluster. We have all of the services you would expect from a real ISP running on the network at this point. I think. I’m learning more … Continue reading

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Please begin seeding etch release candidates with me

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc1/amd64/bt-dvd/

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