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Dell PowerEdge T20

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i’ve bought 2x Dell PowerEdge t20 – they’ll serve as HA pair of routers/vpn endpoints/file servers for a new office. it was the first time i played with intel amt. it’s not bad but neither perfect.

around Gran Canaria

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i’ve spent 2 weeks at the beginning of March at Gran Canaria. below – list of the more interesting walking trails we’ve taken.

open maps + own routes

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over time open street maps got better and better; i started to rely on them more than on google maps when hiking around – osm gave me more detailed maps of hiking trails in Barcelona and Singapore, Las Palmas and Slovenia. i wanted to share some of the interesting paths here; the best i could ... Read More

sphinx text search – sorting the results by relevancy

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a while ago i helped a colleague with moving away from mysql-based text search based on MATCH .. AGAINST to sphinxsearch to improve the performance. without much surprise this helped a lot to improve the response time. recently i was asked to take a look at the setup again and see if we can do ... Read More

openvpn throttled from ovh’s bhs datacenter?

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for work we rent a dedicated server from OVH. it’s been 5 months now and i’m pretty satisfied with the service provided. at the initial stage we’ve bumped into a problem that was never really solved; i cannot be even 100% sure if it’s OVH’s fault. UDP-based OpenVPN connection established from OVH’s BHS datacenter to ... Read More

wordpress hangs when uploading an image

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i’ve moved my wordpress to a new server few weeks ago. all appeared to work fine but i forgot changing the configuration and providing new upload dir path. result? the media page [ wp-admin/upload.php ] did not open and apache2 appeared to be hanged using 100% cpu. i could not add any media in the ... Read More

hk, mc, sg, my

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some walking trails i’ve taken during my last trip to Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia.

clipboard service, rdp

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did the clipboard suddenly stopped passing text between your local computer and the remote desktop session? the first thing i do in such case is: start the task manager on the remote host go to processes, find rdpclip.exe and kill it start again rdpclip.exe on the remote host and try copy and paste again

30c3

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talks from 30c3 that i’ve found interesting: technical and political https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTVgPw7TR_k – Seeing The Secret State: Six Landscapes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txRdOjgokQ4 – Backdoors, Government Hacking and The Next Crypto Wars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMwPe2KqYn4 – Through a PRISM, Darkly – Everything we know about NSA spying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vILAlhwUgIU – Jacob Applebaum: To Protect And Infect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HXLaRWk1SM – CounterStrike – Lawful Interception ... Read More

squeezing water out of jepgs, pngs

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jpegoptim can reduce size of JPG files. if used without -m option it’s lossless. apt-get install jpegoptim find . -type f -exec jpegoptim -m80 {} ‘;’ for pngs there are few tools out of which i found pngcrush to give best results. unfortunately it does not work ‘in-place’ and temporary file needs to be created ... Read More

pigz –rsyncable, rdiff

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i’m backing up in total ~90GB of mysqldumps each night. the more data, the bigger pain it is.

hibernation for windows 2012 server

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run cmd as admin and there: after that control panel>hardware>power options>change advanced power settings and hibernate is available that did a trick for windows 2012 server on an old poweredge 1950 server. unfortunately wake on lan refused to work despite of: in the control panel > network and internet > network connections for the lan ... Read More

love and responsibility

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http://vimeo.com/loveandresponsibility – concepts from Love and Responsibility explained in plain language. good stuff.

SÅ‚awomir Cenckiewicz: “WaÅ‚Ä™sa – czÅ‚owiek z teczki”

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iap18N9uds8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULCncSicn6I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InoLloE6Gck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1qfq_stzUo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDiNqF1mgDY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvJmOqumO_8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21gDYQQv1Mc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elUVHWuudsc + Semka – “za a nawet przeciw” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvhJXCeEHvw + Braun – “plusy dodatnie plusy ujemne” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPS9ppqMII4
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i’m setting up some rented server. it has 2x ssd drives on which i’ll be running raid1 with mdadm with ext4. installation of debian wheezy went fine but i wanted to use fstrim to prevent write performance degradation over time. it did not work under 3.2.0 kernel giving me: after quick googling i learned that ... Read More

[pl] syria

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http://independenttrader.pl/141,syria_-_walka_o_wplywy.html http://politykawschodnia.pl/index.php/2012/10/03/wierzbicki-los-gazpromu-i-gospodarki-rosyjskiej-rozstrzygnie-sie-w-syrii/ http://geopolityka.org/syria-2012/2383-dlaczego-rosja-powinna-wspierac-assada http://narodowcy.net/europa-i-swiat/3143-kto-poprze-atak-na-syrie no i mamy dysonans poznawczy, nagle wielki brat zza wschodniej granicy okazuje sie sila stabilizujaca. a plomienni obroncy demokracji z zachodu? sponsoruja w syrii tych z ktorymi walcza w afganistanie.

hu/sk/at/cz

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a brain-dump from my recent trip to Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and Czech Republic.

vmware esxi 5.1 keeping mac address after moving to a new hardware

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i had to move hard disks containing installed esxi 5.1 from one server to another. after i booted up a new server there was an unexpected surprise for me… vmware ‘kept’ the mac address assigned to the management interface from the old machine. so for a while i had duplicate mac address: legitimately on the ... Read More