I recently upgraded some hosts to Fedora 11 which has Samba 3.4 included. I configure most of the hosts I control to be integrated with Active Directory for authentication and […]

A fairly typical scenario when installing software that does not come fro the distribution package manager is to install an application and find that it cannot find a library necessary […]

When reviewing the history file in bash, it’s terrible not knowing when a command was executed.  Using the HISTTIMEFORMAT variable in a .bashrc file, the timestamp can be added to […]

I just spent a bit of time troubleshooting a path issue with sudo on a CentOS server.  This is a note to self to preserve this bit of knowledge. When […]

When building out a system with a boot partition using software RAID, it is critical to install GRUB on both drives to that if one fails, the other can be […]

One of the biggest bottlenecks in any system is the hard disk drive.  I found HyperOS Systems while reviewing the MySQL users mailing list yesterday.  This company sells a device […]

The Linux Foundation recently had a contest to see who could come up with a video to compete with the “I’m a Mac” and “I’m a PC” ads.  Here is […]

I came across this handy page which details LUN alignment offset via fdisk: Setting the offset. Apparently this comes in handy when working with EMC Clarriions.