When I’ve created my setup (displayed below), I took into account the possibility of disconnection, or process fall, and I’ve left pppd to deal with it, by trying to connect just as it has fallen down. It was a good solution for the scenarios where there is a temporary, short timed disconnection. It fails to…
It has been long time since I’ve written here before. I got lazy, but I have few new things to share with whoever reads this blog, and myself, for future reference. First – I’ve got a nice VGA card from a friend of mine, a nice looking TI8200 x8, which is a great upgrade comparing…
I have noticed there is no fixed guide for L2TP for cable connection in Israel. Since I’ve been doing just this thing today, I’ve decided to put online my own comments on the issue, with hope it would help other people too. Subject: L2TP cables connection to an ISP called Actcom in Israel, using Fedora…
Two days ago, calling in sick for the day, I’ve noticed my home Internet connection dropped few times. Not only that, I’ve noticed that while it dropped, my router, a Linux machine, was inaccessible. A quick verification showed that the machine just rebooted itself once a while, while other machines, located on the same power…
Here are some pictures of the server upgrade. Old server: P2 300MHz, with 256MB RAM: Old server, in its old location New server: Xion 3GHz+HT+EMT64, with 1GB RAM. Nice: Dell PowerEdge 1800. Nice LEDs 🙂 The whole server room during the upgrade. Notice the 3com router/switch! You’ll be able to recognise it by its antenas…
Tom Adelstein has posted an article about why people use Linux. Although I tend to stick to the tech stuff, it was rather interesting. One could never imaging MS bashing wasn’t one of the major reasons… 🙂 I have had fun with Cacti, in the meanwhile. It is one mean graphing machine. Details, as well…
