Once again a big disappointment with a “server management” company called Server Support Guys (SSG from ByteFortress, SSG for ServerSupportGuys) left my server down for 12 hours

ThePlanet leaves my server dead for 50 hours

DomainKeys implementation really sucky

64bit experiences

A crazy script, a bad firewall config and a nice weekend with my girlfriend… now I got the following answer when connecting to my POP mailbox +OK You have 45819 messages totaling 96581259 octets from /home/cemper/mail/cemper.com/christoph/inbox (partial cache v9) Very…

EXT3 Filesystem tuning

if you find crap messages like [Fri Apr 29 13:39:00 2005] [notice] child pid 29637 exit signal File size limit exceeded (25) in your httpd error log at /etc/httpd/logs/error_log then it's a good guess to look if you access_log in…

The Planet/ServerMatrix (I have my servers with them as well) today announced that it is the first hosting vendor to offer customers Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ES is immediately available to customers of The…

I need a command to view the disk space taken up by directory-level, similar to df, but with 1-2 levels deeper, so I can see the disk usage by user's sub dir in the /home directory for example -...

MRTG

FTP Batch update tool

The amazing Linux Duracell CPU load monitor is sort of the weirdes hardware hack I came across in the last months… You probably know those onboard testers found on Energizer and Duracell batteries : press the two white dots printed…

DoCoMo seen offering Linux-based 3G phones TOKYO (Reuters) – NTT DoCoMo, Japan's top mobile operator, aims to offer third-generation (3G) handsets that run on the Linux-based operating system as early as the second half of 2004, according to a source…

Dell Inspiron 8600 Linux

The article System recovery with Knoppix shows how to access a non-booting Linux system with a Knoppix CD, get read-write permissions on configuration files, create and manage partitions and filesystems, and copy files to various storage media and over the…