Tag: linux
The Outer Limits of Server Maintenance
October 25th, 2001, No Comments
Today I’m bringing down zanti, our Sun Ultra10 that runs Red Hat Linux 6.2. It’s main job is being a PostgreSQL server. Zanti has been up for 597 days but now it’s time to do some major upgrades. I’ll probably switch it back to Solaris as well since Red Hat no longer supports the Sparc [...]
New GNOME, Slow Nautilus
May 8th, 2001, No Comments
Time for another Mozilla upgrade – I’m posting this from Mozilla 0.9 and so far it seems to show the usual incremental improvement. There have been major performance improvements but there still need to be a few more before it’s ready for prime-time. The bookmark manager is still a bit slow and the initial start [...]
Red Hat Definitely Drops Sparc Support
May 1st, 2001, No Comments
I finally got a definite-sounding answer in email from someone at Red Hat. It looks like Red Hat Linux for Sparc is officially dead. They said, “We are not offering a SPARC version of Red Hat Linux as there was not enough consumer demand or interest for it. To my knowledge one will not be [...]
Red Hat Drops Sparc Support
April 27th, 2001, No Comments
I’m annoyed with Red Hat. We run both Intel and Sun hardware and I like to use the same distribution of Linux on all of them to make things more consistent. We’re running Red Hat 6.2 now. There was no Red Hat 7.0 release for Sparc, which was not that surprising as they’ve skipped *.0 [...]
I Finally Have Broadband Thanks to Paragon/ATT Cable
February 4th, 2001, No Comments
Saturday was the big day. The Paragon Cable/ATT installers showed up around 10:30am and a few hours later we had a working cable modem. The cable modem is one of the newer RCA types (it’s the one at the bottom of the page next the 3Com Sharkfin). I also picked up a Linksys BEFSR81 Cable/DSL [...]
Richard Stallman Comes to Dallas
January 17th, 2001, No Comments
I heard RMS speak at the DFWUUG meeting last night. A lot of other people showed up too, in spite of the cold, wet weather. It’s the first time I’ve seen him in person and he was very much what I expected with a few exceptions. He told the story of the Free Software Foundation, [...]
Windows 2048?
October 28th, 2000, No Comments
I’ve noticed a lot of attempted break-ins on our servers during the last week. Mostly trying to use the rpc.statd buffer overflow. Looks like another wave of massive, automated cracking going on. Might be a good idea to disable or block access to rpc.statd where possible. Meanwhile, we’ve been upgrading one of our few Windows [...]
A New VA Linux 2130
October 22nd, 2000, No Comments
Our new VA Linux 2130 server arrived yesterday (ya gotta love that extra-bright blue LED!). This box is a colo for an existing client who is upgrading. I’ve decided my favorite servers are the VA Linux 1U and 2U servers for web servers and the Dell 2450 2U box with RAID 5 for database servers. [...]
