Monthly Archives: April 2007

Putting /etc Under Subversion (SVN)

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Barry O'Donovan

A Google for the above took some work to locate the exact recipe I wanted for this. The problem is that one really needs to do an ‘in-place’ import. The solution was from Subversion‘s own FAQs (specifically this) which is … Continue reading →

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OpenVPN “Just Works”

Posted on April 12, 2007 by Barry O'Donovan

When it comes to OSS, it very often happens that I find something I like and stick with it. OpenVPN is a good example of this. I have a number of OpenVPN installations for various purposes and today I had … Continue reading →

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IPMI Sensor Data on Dell 1850s and 2850s via SNMP and Cacti

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Barry O'Donovan

I use Cacti to monitor a lot of Dell servers, primarily 1850s and 2850s but also the newer models of same (1950s and 2950s). One itch that I’ve meant to scratch for a while is graphing some of the information … Continue reading →

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GCC Optimisations per CPU

Posted on April 10, 2007 by Barry O'Donovan

Pádraig Brady wrote a very useful script for getting the optimum gcc options for your CPU which I keep coming back to (and forgetting where to find it). The last version can be found at http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/gcccpuopt along with a lot … Continue reading →

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IPv6 Blasts Into Orbit

Posted on April 10, 2007 by Barry O'Donovan

http://www.dmcii.com/news.htm: On Thursday, 29 March 2007, a Cisco Systems router, flying in low Earth Orbit onboard the UK-DMC satellite built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), was successfully configured by NASA Glenn Research Center to use IPsec and IPv6 technologies … Continue reading →

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