When a company is about to relocate to a new floor or a new building, that is the time when the little piles of dirt swept under the rug come back to hunt you. In several companies I have been to, I have stressed the need of an ordered environment. This is valid to networking…
I have installed SVN on Centos4 (RHEL4) following these small and short steps. 1. Check out svnbook. This is the place where all your later questions will be answered. 2. Using Centos/RHEL and still not using Dag Wieers and RPMForge’s RPM repository? 3. Install using YUM or Apt the following packages: mod_dav_svn subversion mod_ssl distcache…
For some reason (probably a typo) I’ve missed an important character in an example I gave here, but I have just recently fixed it. Anyhow, to clarify this, here is the extended description of the correction. The $IFS Bash system variable defines what is the default separator between strings. Changing it can help when dealing…
I love the tool Cacti. It’s a nice graphing tool, which helps a lot in system monitoring and management. Its logic, however, is not always obvious. The relationship between data types, host templates and graph templates is quite complex, and if you are to implement any non-default setup using Cacti, you better understand these relationships…
This post will offer several tips and tricks for wiring cables into new rack closets. It uses pictures as a demonstration of what to do and what not to do. It is based on a job I have taken part in with several other companies, moving the server farm to a new location. This job…
As you can see in my previous posts, I have an NVidia card. It worked quite well while using XGL, but due to XGL’s memory consumption (it takes a lot of memory), I have decided to try for AIGLX, which is part of the X.org system. In my previous post you can see that (and…
