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chrooted bind9 with geodns under debian wheezy

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at work we’ll soon make use of dns-based geo load balancing to have users in americas / asia ‘talk’ with north am site and rest of the world – with the european site. we preferred to avoid modifying the client application so the dns based solution seemed reasonable. below – quick overview of the setup ... Read More

cloning GPT disk to a smaller drive

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while rescuing data from server having problems with either disk or raid controller i had to clone data from 2x 1TB RAID1 to 4x 500GB RAID10. as it turned out the space available on the destination server was 1GB less than on the source machine. shrinking the source drive with gparted-live and dd’ing over the ... Read More

legitimate mail classified by amavis as

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i use amavisd-new as content filter for incoming messages. today it decided to classify a plain-text part of the message containing: as a python executable and did not deliver the message. my solution – in the config file for amavis i’ve added an exception for anything that is detected to be python scripts:

dell 2135cn – 016-317 restart printer, contact support

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i’ve bricked one of our printers. over the network upgrade of the dell 2135cn was interrupted and printer was most probably rebooted at the worst possible time – when it was flashing the new firmware. result? printer no longer responded over the network, the lcd panel displayed just: 016-317 restart printer contact support but… i’ve ... Read More

installation of debian wheezy on mdadm raid1 + gpt

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in branch offices i tend to install two identical pcs running linux and working in active – hot-spare setup. things evolved over time – one location has both routers running under vmware esxi on two different hosts, another – hardware raid, other – desktop-class pcs with single hard drives. hardware raids are good as long ... Read More

“z mocy bezprawia” – sumlinski

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbadNtNOYcQ#t=6m30s – prelekcja Wojciecha SumliÅ„skiego ; miedzy innymi studium niszczenia czlowieka, bagno systemu sadowniczego i nierozliczonej przeszlosci.

adventure with green drives

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wd [and other vendors] sell green drives; they are reasonably cheap but have annoying tendency to spin down very very quickly. i bought recently 2x WD20NPVT-00Z2TT0 with intention of using them [in very unprofessional fashion] in PERC6 RAID1 array.

the putin system

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zu_h1w_vWI – cbc’s “the putin system”
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The Smell of Paradise

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quqF_STyHXc / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYP7D3p44Ak – another documentary by Mariusz Pilis about Jihad

updating bios / firmware with help of linux, without cds and usb pendrives

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from time to time i have to upgrade different types of firmwares in PCs – sometimes it’s bioses, sometimes raid/network/ssd firmware. until now i was either burning cd-rw with iso provided by the vendor or making some bootable usb pen-drive with free-dos or sth similar. but i stumbled on this one and it worked surprisingly ... Read More

Attack of the Drones – USA

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msHJLwYWX30 – Attack of the Drones: Is war becoming a video game Obama’s Rules For Assassinating American Citizens number of killed by dronesa in Pakistan [hm… arent Pakis ‘the good guys’?]

vpro – the food speculator

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGBM4WngZT4 – commodities / futures markets; seen from all the three ends – speculators, produces and consumers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq1Ln1UCoEU – vpro – Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box